Pichi Sermolli, R.E.G. (1951), Notes on some Australian ferns. Webbia; raccolta di scritti botanici 8: 209-210 [nom. nov.]

replaced synonym: Notholaena canescens Kunze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Cheilanthes canescens (Kunze) Mett. nom. illeg.

• Comment: nom. nov., non Cheilanthes canescens Kunze (1839), nec C. canescens (Kunze) Mett., nom. illeg. (1851).

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

misapplication: Notholaena brownii Desv. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. by Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 36

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

taxonomic synonym: Notholaena canescens Kunze legitimate vernacular name: Woolly 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]

Chinnock, R.J. & Henshall, T.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Pteridophyta. Flora of Central Australia: 8 [secondary reference]

common name: Woolly cloak-fern [n/a]

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

common name: Woolly 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): 531-532 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Notholaena canescens Kunze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Notholaena lasiopteris F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud.

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

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, pl.2 [secondary reference]

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

common name: Woolly Cloak-fern [n/a]

Chambers, T.C. & Farrant, P.A. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Cheilanthes. Flora of Australia 48: 285-286, Fig. 105, Map 261 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Notholaena canescens Kunze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Notholaena lasiopteris F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud.

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

common name: Wooly Cloak Fern [n/a]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Sinopteridaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 26, Plate 2 [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): 48-49, Fig. 14I-L, map [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Notholaena canescens Kunze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Notholaena lasiopteris F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud.

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

nomenclatural synonym: Nothochlaena canescens Kunze orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Notholaena canescens Kunze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Cheilanthes canescens (Kunze) Mett. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Notholaena lasiopteris F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud. misapplication: Notholaena brownii Desv. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. by Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 36

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

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]

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