Lotsy, J.P. (1909), Vortrage uber Botanische Stammesgeschichte 2: 655 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Dennstaedtia Bernh.

Chinnock, R.J. & Henshall, T.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Pteridophyta. Flora of Central Australia: 10 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Dennstaedtiaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 51 [secondary reference]

Kramer, K.U. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1990), Dennstaedtiaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 1: 81-94, Figs. 33-40 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Dennstaedtiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 45 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Dennstaedtiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 44 [secondary reference]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Ferns and Allied Plants. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 76 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Dennstaedtiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 45 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 228 [secondary reference]

Smith, A.R., Pryer, K.M., Schuettpelz, E., Korall, P., Schneider, H. & Wolf, P.G. (August 2006), A classification for extant ferns. Taxon 55(3): 714 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 263, 928 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pteridaceae Ching legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Dennstaedtineaceae Lotsy orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), ChI, NT, SA (native and naturalised), Qld, NSW, LHI, NI, ACT, Vic, Tas

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Zhang, X.C. & Schneider, H. (2011), A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns. Phytotaxa 19: 13 [secondary reference]

Field, A.R. (2 January 2020), Classification and typification of Australian lycophytes and ferns based on Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification PPG I. Australian Systematic Botany 33(1): 49-50 [secondary reference]

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