Watts, W.W. (26 February 1915), Some notes on the ferns of north Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 767-768, pl. 87, Fig. 6, a-e [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Frenchman's Creek: July, 1913. On rocks."

Copeland, E.B. (1937), Philippine Journal of Science 64: 48 [secondary reference]

Copeland, E.B. (26 October 1938), Genera Hymenophyllacearum. Philippine Journal of Science 67(1): 43 [basionym]

basionym of: Meringium kerianum (Watts) Copel. legitimate

Croxall, J.P. (1975), The Hymenophyllaceae of Queensland. Australian Journal of Botany 23(3): 515-516 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Frenchmans Creek, July 1913, on rocks W.W. Watts s.n. (NSW P 1240), seen. Isotype BRI 030478."

nomenclatural synonym: Meringium kerianum (Watts) Copel. legitimate

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1: 11 [secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2: 11 [secondary reference]

Bostock, P.D. & Spokes, T.M. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Hymenophyllaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 128, Map 86 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Meringium kerianum (Watts) Copel. legitimate

• APC Dist.: Qld

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): 24 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Frenchmans Creek, Queensland, July 1913, W.W.Watts (lecto: NSW 841300* [P1240]; isolecto: BM 001044316*, BRI AQ0024766!, NSW 841301*, NSW 841302*, P 00623495!, UC 980607!, U 0007413*"

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