Hoffmann, G.F. (1796), Commentationes Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Gottingensis 12: 29, t. 5 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Polypodium evectum G.Forst. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1866), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5(36): 114 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1874), Handbook to the Ferns of Queensland: 65-66, Fig. 59 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 136 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 6 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 638 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (January 1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 218-219 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1: 16 [secondary reference]

common name: Giant Fern [n/a]

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: 10 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Marattiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 19 [secondary reference]

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): 322 [secondary reference]

Camus, J.M. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Marattiaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 111 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Polypodium evectum G.Forst. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Angiopteris elongata Hieron. legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld, NSW

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Marattiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 19 [secondary reference]

Nicolson, D.H. & Fosberg, F.R. (2003), The Forsters and the botany of the second Cook expedition (1772-1775). Regnum Vegetabile 139: 98 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Polypodium evectum G.Forst. legitimate

Short, P., Dixon, D. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2003), A review of the ferns and fern allies of the Northern Territory. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 19(3): 19, Fig. 4A-C, map [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Polypodium evectum G.Forst. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Angiopteris avecta F.M.Bailey orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Polypodium evectum G.Forst. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Angiopteris elongata Hieron. legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld, NSW

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): 17 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Polypodium evectum G.Forst. legitimate

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