Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 158 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(J.D.) v.v."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1 January 1853), Notes on the indigenous plants of Victoria. The Argus Newspaper 1774: 5 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 4, 21 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (April 1854), First general report of the Government Botanist, Dr. F. Muller, on the vegetation of the colony of Victoria, in Australia. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 6: 124 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1874), Handbook to the Ferns of Queensland: 56, Fig. 49 [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]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 710 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 137 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 289 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Alsophila cooperi Hook. ex F.Muell. legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 289 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 640 [secondary reference]

common name: Common Fern-tree [n/a]

• Vernacular: Kalldi

Domin, K. (October 1914), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 30-31, Fig. 5 [secondary reference]

Ewart, A.J. (1925), Handbook of Forest Trees for Victorian Foresters: 37-38, Pl. II [secondary reference]

common name: The Prickly Tree Fern [n/a]

Domin, K. (1929), Pteridophyta: 262 [basionym]

basionym of: Cyathea australis (R.Br.) Domin legitimate

Tindale, M.D. (1951), Notes on Three Australasian Ferns. American Fern Journal 41: 99 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "King's Island, Bass Strait, R. Brown 94, 1802,"

Tindale, M.D. (26 June 1956), The Cyatheaceae of Australia. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 2(4): 352 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyathea australis (R.Br.) Domin legitimate

Holttum, R.E. (1964), The tree-ferns of the genus Cyathea in Australasia and the Pacific. Blumea 12(2): 244 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyathea australis (R.Br.) Domin legitimate

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 18 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyathea australis (R.Br.) Domin legitimate

Pichi Sermolli, R.E.G. (1991), The pteridological collections of the G.R.S.T.S. Expedition to the coastal region of north-eastern Queensland. Webbia; raccolta di scritti botanici 45(2): 351 [secondary reference]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Ferns and Allied Plants. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 68 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyathea australis (R.Br.) Domin legitimate

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 579 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyathea australis subsp. norfolkensis Holttum legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 710

Bostock, P.D. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Cyatheaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 198 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyathea australis (R.Br.) Domin legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyathea australis (R.Br.) Domin 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): 34 [secondary reference]

• Type: "King’s Island, Bass Strait, 1802, R.Brown Iter Austral. 94 (lecto: BM 001048147*; possible isolecto: BM 001048149*, E 00208890*, E 00208891*, E 00208893*, K 000061752*"

nomenclatural synonym: Cyathea australis (R.Br.) Domin legitimate

Brown, G.K. & Bostock, P.D. (December 2020), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2019 to 2020. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2020: 7 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cyathea australis (R.Br.) Domin legitimate

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

pro parte misapplied to: Cyathea australis subsp. norfolkensis Holttum legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 710

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyathea australis (R.Br.) Domin legitimate

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