Smith, J. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1841), Enumeratio Filicum Philippinarum; or a systematic arrangement of the ferns collected by H. Cuming, Esq., F.L.S., in the Philippine islands and the peninsula of Malacca, between the years 1836 and 1840. The Journal of Botany 3(24): 399 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Hemionitis pothifolia D.Don legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1878), On the ferns of Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3(2): 119 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Hemionitis pothifolia D.Don legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polypodium ellipticum Thunb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Selliguea elliptica Bedd. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Selliguea elliptica (Thunb.) Bedd. legitimate

• APC Comment: An Asian taxon, now referred to Leptochilus pothifolius (D.Don) Fraser-Jenk., recorded by various authors, but not known to occur in Australia.

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