Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 155 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(J.) v.v."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (24 October 1854), Second general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the Colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 17 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1874), Handbook to the Ferns of Queensland: 21 [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 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 641 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (January 1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 148, Fig. 28 [secondary reference]

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 25 [secondary reference]

vernacular name: Giant Maidenhair-fern [n/a] vernacular name: Black-stem [n/a]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Adiantaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 24 [secondary reference]

common name: Giant Maidenhair [n/a]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Ferns and Allied Plants. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 47, Fig. 10f, pl. 1a-c [secondary reference]

common name: Giant Maidenhair [n/a] common name: Black Stem [n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 564 [secondary reference]

• Text: "... was recorded from the 'Little Slope', Lord Howe Is., by J.H.Maiden (Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 45: 564, 1920) and there is a specimens merely labelled 'Lord Howe Island' (NSW P2501) in the National Herbarium of N.S.W. It has never been collected since and the record needs confirmation."

Bostock, P.D. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Appendix: Adiantaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 259, Figs 65, 103, Map 230 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Adiantum formosum var. leptophyllum Domin legitimate common name: Maidenhair Ferns [n/a]

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 44 [secondary reference]

common name: Giant Maidenhair [n/a] common name: Black Stem Maidenhair [n/a]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Adiantaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 24 [secondary reference]

common name: Giant Maidenhair [n/a]

Tindale, M.D. & Roy, S.K. (23 December 2002), A cytotaxonomic survey of the Pteridophyta of Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 15(6): 847 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Adiantum formosum R.Br. var. formosum legitimate taxonomic synonym: Adiantum formosum var. leptophyllum Domin legitimate

• APC Dist.: 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): 44 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Port Jackson, R.Brown Iter Austral. 67 (lecto, designated here: BM 001044143*; possible isolecto: B 200004427!, B 200004365!, B 200004366!, E 00208920*, K 001090086*, MEL 1558973*)"

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