Brackenridge, W.D. (1854), United States Exploring Expedition. Botany, Cryptogamia, Filices 16: 256, t. 36, fig. 5 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Hab. Tahiti, Society Islands: on trees, in mountain forests."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1870), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 7(55): 122 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 703 [secondary reference]

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

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 282 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 639 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (October 1914), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 15 [secondary reference]

Copeland, E.B. (26 October 1938), Genera Hymenophyllacearum. Philippine Journal of Science 67(1): 84 [basionym]

basionym of: Macroglena caudata (Brack.) Copel. legitimate

Tindale, M.D. (1963), Hymenophyllaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 201: 44 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Macroglena caudata (Brack.) Copel. legitimate

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 16 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Macroglena caudata (Brack.) Copel. legitimate

Croxall, J.P. (1975), The Hymenophyllaceae of Queensland. Australian Journal of Botany 23(3): 545 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Macroglena caudata (Brack.) Copel. legitimate

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Hymenophyllaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 35 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Macroglena caudata (Brack.) Copel. legitimate

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Ferns and Allied Plants. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 41 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Macroglena caudata (Brack.) Copel. legitimate

Bostock, P.D. & Spokes, T.M. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (27 October 1998), Appendix: Hymenophyllaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 146 [basionym]

basionym of: Cephalomanes caudatum (Brack.) Bostock legitimate

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Hymenophyllaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 35 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Macroglena caudata (Brack.) Copel. legitimate

Ebihara, A., Dubuisson, J.-Y., Iwatsuki, K., Hennequin, S. & Ito, M. (2006), A taxonomic revision of Hymenophyllaceae. Blumea 51: 243 [basionym]

basionym of: Abrodictyum caudatum (Brack.) Ebihara & K.Iwats. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Abrodictyum caudatum (Brack.) Ebihara & K.Iwats. 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): 22 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Tahiti, Society Island, 1838, C.Wilkes 15 (holo: US 00134593!)."

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): 22 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Abrodictyum caudatum (Brack.) Ebihara & K.Iwats. legitimate

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