White, C.T. & Goy, D.A. (1938), Ferns of Mt. Spurgeon, North Queensland. The Victorian Naturalist 54(10): 149 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Mt. Spurgeon, North Queensland, C.T. White, No. 10702, Sept., 1936."

Brownsey, P.J. & Chinnock, R.J. (13 March 1987), A taxonomic revision of the Australian species of Hypolepis. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 10(1): 26 [secondary reference]

• Text: "The type specimen has been re-identified by D.A. Smith as Culcita villosa C. Chr., a species described from Papua New Guinea with a distribution extending to Indonesia and Australia."

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

taxonomic synonym of: Calochlaena villosa (C.Chr.) M.D.Turner & R.A.White legitimate

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