Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Polystichum hispidum

Dryopteridaceae Herter

Polystichum hispidum (Sw.) J.Sm.

, legitimate

, scientific

Smith, J. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1841), An arrangement and definition of the genera of ferns, with observations of the affinities of each genus.

The Journal of Botany

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195

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Aspidium hispidum Sw.

legitimate

Houlston, J. & Moore, T. (1851), The genera and species of cultivated ferns.

The Gardeners' Magazine of Botany, Horticulture, Floriculture, and Natural Science

:

318

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Lastrea hispida (Sw.) Houlston

legitimate

Melvaine, A.T. (1936), A check list of the New South Wales Pteridophytes.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

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118

[secondary reference]

Comment: Cited as Polystichum hispidium.

Tindale, M.D. (1957), A preliminary revision of the genus Lastreopsis Ching.

The Victorian Naturalist

:

183

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Lastreopsis hispida (Sw.) Tindale

legitimate

Tindale, M.D. (1961), Aspidiaceae.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series

:

63

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Lastreopsis hispida (Sw.) Tindale

legitimate

Tindale, M.D. (30 March 1965), A monograph of the genus Lastreopsis.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium

:

275

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Lastreopsis hispida (Sw.) Tindale

legitimate

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1

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40

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Lastreopsis hispida (Sw.) Tindale

legitimate

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Ferns and Allied Plants.

Flora of Victoria

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96

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Lastreopsis hispida (Sw.) Tindale

legitimate

Jones, D.L. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Appendix: Dryopteridaceae.

Flora of Australia

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407

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Lastreopsis hispida (Sw.) Tindale

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Polystichum hispidium Melvaine

orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Lastreopsis hispida (Sw.) Tindale

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Lastreopsis hispida (Sw.) Tindale

legitimate