Swartz, O. in Schrader, H.A. (ed.) (1801), Genera et species filicum ordine systematico redactarum adiectis synonymis et iconibus selectis, nec non speciebus recenter detectis, et demum plurimis dubiosis, ulterius investigandis. Journal für die Botanik 1800, 2(1, 2): 100 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Trichomanes demissum G.Forst. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1864), The Vegetation of the Chatham-Islands: 64 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1866), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5(36): 116 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1874), Handbook to the Ferns of Queensland: 61 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 95 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (October 1914), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 20 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Hymenophyllum australe Willd. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1866), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5(36): 116

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Hymenophyllum australe Willd. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1874), Handbook to the Ferns of Queensland: 61

Bostock, P.D. & Spokes, T.M. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Hymenophyllaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 135 [secondary reference]

• Text: "An endemic New Zealand species; apparently an error on Swartz's part in recording its distribution."

Ebihara, A., Dubuisson, J.-Y., Iwatsuki, K., Hennequin, S. & Ito, M. (2006), A taxonomic revision of Hymenophyllaceae. Blumea 51: 232 [secondary reference]

Ebihara, A., Nitta, J.H. & Iwatsuki, K. (2010), The Hymenophyllaceae of the Pacific Area. 2. Hymenophyllum (Excluding Subgen. Hymenophyllum). Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series B (Botany) 36(2): 50, Fig. 16 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Hymenophyllum australe Willd. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1866), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5(36): 116

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Hymenophyllum australe Willd. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1874), Handbook to the Ferns of Queensland: 61

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