Mueller, F.J.H. von (1866), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5(36): 123 [nom. nov.]

replaced synonym: Notholaena fragilis Hook. legitimate

• Comment: nom. nov., non Cheilanthes fragilis Hook. (1859).

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

Mueller, F.J.H. von (13 May 1889), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 4: 7 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (January 1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 135 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cheilanthes fragilis Hook. legitimate

Tindale, M.D. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (1958), The Pteridophyta of Arnhem Land. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 172, 177-178 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Notholaena fragilis Hook. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cheilanthes fragilis Hook. legitimate

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 319 [secondary reference]

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]

Quirk, H.M., Chambers, T.C. & Regan, M. (1983), The fern genus Cheilanthes in Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 31(5): 523-526 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Notholaena fragilis Hook. legitimate

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]

Chambers, T.C. & Farrant, P.A. (27 September 1991), A re-examination of the genus Cheilanthes (Adiantaceae) in Australia. Telopea 4(3): 539 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Adiantaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 37 [secondary reference]

Chambers, T.C. & Farrant, P.A. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Cheilanthes. Flora of Australia 48: 279, Fig. 106, Map 253 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Notholaena fragilis Hook. legitimate misapplication: Cheilanthes fragilis Hook. legitimate by Hooker, W.J. (1859), Filices Exoticae: t. 96

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 108 [secondary reference]

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]

Short, P., Dixon, D. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2003), A review of the ferns and fern allies of the Northern Territory. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 19(3): 48, Fig. 14G, H, map [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Notholaena fragilis Hook. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym: Nothochlaena fragilis Hook. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Notholaena fragilis Hook. legitimate misapplication: Cheilanthes fragilis Hook. legitimate by Hooker, W.J. (1859), Filices Exoticae: t. 96

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Fay, M.F. & Byng, J.W. (9 February 2018), GLOVAP Nomenclature Part 1. The Global Flora: a practical flora to vascular plant species of the world 4: 14 [basionym]

basionym of: Hemionitis fragillima (F.Muell.) 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): 47 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Hemionitis fragillima (F.Muell.) Christenh. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Nothochlaena fragilis Hook. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Notholaena fragilis Hook. legitimate misapplication: Cheilanthes fragilis Hook. legitimate by Hooker, W.J. (1859), Filices Exoticae: t. 96

• APC Dist.: WA, NT

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