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• Type: (not designated).

Brongniart, A.T. in Bory de Saint-Vincent, J.B.G.M. (1823), Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire Naturelle 3: 350 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Ceratopteris thalictroides (L.) Brongn.

Hooker, W.J. (1858), Species Filicum 2(7-8): 235 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1858), Botanical report on the north-Australian expedition under the command of A.C. Gregory Esq. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Botany 2: 141 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1874), Handbook to the Ferns of Queensland: 64 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From keras, keratos, a horn, and pteris, a fern."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 137 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 638 [secondary reference]

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Lloyd, R.M. (1974), Systematics of the Genus Ceratopteris Brongn. (Parkeriaceae) II. Taxonomy. Brittonia 26(1): 147-149 [secondary reference]

Tryon, R.M. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1990), Pteridaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 1: 232-233 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Parkeriaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 22 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Adiantaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 35 [secondary reference]

Bostock, P.D. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Parkeriaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 287 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

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Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 169 [secondary reference]

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