Mettenius, G.H. (1859), Cheilanthes. Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 3(1): 69 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Notholaena distans R.Br. legitimate

Moore, T. (1861), Index Filicum 11: 238 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1874), Handbook to the Ferns of Queensland: 22-23 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Notholaena distans R.Br. legitimate

• Etymology: "Stenos, narrow, and chlaina, a cloak."

Tate, R. (1880), A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Extra-Tropical South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 3: 89 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 138 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 284 [alternative name]

alternative name: Notholaena distans R.Br. legitimate

Domin, K. (January 1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 134-135 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Notholaena distans R.Br. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 37 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Notholaena distans R.Br. legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 2 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 37 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Notholaena distans R.Br. legitimate

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 65 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. & Murray, L.R. (1963), Poisonous Plants of the Northern Territory: 21 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 26 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Notholaena distans R.Br. legitimate

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 28 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Notholaena distans R.Br. legitimate vernacular name: Bristly Cloak fern [n/a]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 217 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 29 [secondary reference]

common name: Bristly Cloak Fern [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 4 [secondary reference]

Quirk, H.M., Chambers, T.C. & Regan, M. (1983), The fern genus Cheilanthes in Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 31(5): 526-529, Fig. 16 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Notholaena distans R.Br. legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 25 [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), Adiantaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 48-49 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Notholaena distans R.Br. legitimate common name: Bristly Cloak Fern [n/a]

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

common name: Bristly Cloak Fern [n/a]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Ferns and Allied Plants. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 49, 51, Fig. 10m-n [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Notholaena distans R.Br. legitimate common name: Bristly Cloak-fern [n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 565, Fig. 104F-G [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Notholaena distans R.Br. legitimate common name: Bristly Cloakfern [n/a]

Chambers, T.C. & Farrant, P.A. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Cheilanthes. Flora of Australia 48: 286, Fig. 105A, Map 262 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Notholaena distans R.Br. legitimate

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 22 [secondary reference]

common name: Bristly Cloak fern [n/a]

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

common name: Bristly Cloak 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]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Notholaena distans R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Acrostichum distans (R.Br.) Sm. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Nothochlaena distans F.Muell. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Cheilanthes distans (R.Br.) Mett. var. distans legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eriochasma distans Hereman orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Eriochosma distans (R.Br.) Hereman legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Qld, NSW, LHI, NI, 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]

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): 47 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Notholaena distans R.Br. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Notholaena distans R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Acrostichum distans (R.Br.) Sm. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Nothochlaena distans F.Muell. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Cheilanthes distans (R.Br.) Mett. var. distans legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eriochosma distans (R.Br.) Hereman legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eriochasma distans Hereman orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Hemionitis distans (R.Br.) Christenh. legitimate

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

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