Watts, W.W. (26 February 1915), Some notes on the ferns of north Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 792, t. lxxxix, fig. 12a-c. [tax. nov.]

• Type: "On trees and the faces of boulders, Tully Falls; Watts and Gordon; August, 1913."

• Comment: nom. illeg., non Baker (1879).

Andrews, S.B. (1 December 1977), Miscellaneous notes on Australian Pteridophytes. I. Austrobaileya 1(1): 12 [basionym]

basionym of: Ctenopteris gordonii S.B.Andrews legitimate

Parris, B.S. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Appendix: Grammitidaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 714 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Tully Falls, Qld, Aug. 1913, W.W.Watts & Gordon; lecto (here chosen): NSW P822; isolecto BRI 114724, BRI 182219, MEL 106583."

Parris, B.S. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Grammitidaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 462 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Ctenopteris gordonii S.B.Andrews legitimate

Parris, B.S. (2007), Five new genera and three new species of Grammitidaceae (Filicales) and the re-establishment of Oreogrammitis. The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore 58(2): 236 [basionym]

basionym of: Ctenopterella gordonii (S.B.Andrews) Parris legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Polypodium gordoni Watts orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Ctenopterella gordonii (S.B.Andrews) Parris legitimate

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Fay, M.F. & Byng, J.W. (9 February 2018), GLOVAP Nomenclature Part 1. The Global Flora: a practical flora to vascular plant species of the world 4: 89 [basionym]

basionym of: Grammitis gordonii (S.B.Andrews) Christenh. legitimate

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): 89 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Ctenopterella gordonii (S.B.Andrews) Parris legitimate

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