Quirk, H.M., Chambers, T.C. & Regan, M. (1983), The fern genus Cheilanthes in Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 31(5): 510, figs 3, 4 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "H.Quirk 79, You Yangs Forest Park, Vic., April 1975, MEL 515001 (Figs 4 and 5)."

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 25, 26 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Burm.f.) Sw. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 2 misapplication: Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Burm.f.) Sw. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 4

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Adiantaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 48, Fig. 3 [secondary reference]

common name: Rock Fern [n/a]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 3 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Sinopteridaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 26 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Burm.f.) Sw. legitimate by Swartz, O. (1806), Synopsis Filicum: 129, 332 common name: Rock fern [n/a]

Chambers, T.C. & Farrant, P.A. (27 September 1991), A re-examination of the genus Cheilanthes (Adiantaceae) in Australia. Telopea 4(3): 533 [secondary reference]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Ferns and Allied Plants. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 49, Fig. 10i-j [secondary reference]

misapplication: Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Burm.f.) Sw. var. tenuifolia legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 27 common name: Rock Fern [n/a]

Chambers, T.C. & Farrant, P.A. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Cheilanthes. Flora of Australia 48: 276, Fig. 105, Map 250 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1: 7 [secondary reference]

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 21 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Sinopteridaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 26 [secondary reference]

common name: Rock Fern [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 226 [secondary reference]

common name: Rock Fern [n/a]

Tindale, M.D. & Roy, S.K. (23 December 2002), A cytotaxonomic survey of the Pteridophyta of Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 15(6): 848 [secondary reference]

CHAH (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

misapplication: Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Burm.f.) Sw. legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 284 misapplication: Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Burm.f.) Sw. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 2 misapplication: Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Burm.f.) Sw. var. tenuifolia legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 27 misapplication: Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Burm.f.) Sw. legitimate by Chinnock, R.J. in Black, J.M. (1978), Flora of South Australia Edn. 3, 1: 53

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 32 [secondary reference]

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Fay, M.F. & Byng, J.W. (2018), GLOVAP Nomenclature Part 1. The Global Flora: a practical flora to vascular plant species of the world 4: 10 [basionym]

basionym of: Hemionitis austrotenuifolia (H.M.Quirk & T.C.Chambers) Christenh. legitimate

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): 46 [secondary reference]

CHAH (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hemionitis austrotenuifolia (H.M.Quirk & T.C.Chambers) Christenh. legitimate misapplication: Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Burm.f.) Sw. legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 284 misapplication: Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Burm.f.) Sw. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 2 misapplication: Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Burm.f.) Sw. var. tenuifolia legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 27 misapplication: Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Burm.f.) Sw. legitimate by Chinnock, R.J. in Black, J.M. (1978), Flora of South Australia Edn. 3, 1: 53

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

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