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 Pteridium revolutum

Dennstaedtiaceae Lotsy

Pteridium revolutum (Blume) Nakai

, legitimate

, scientific

Nakai, T. (1925), Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 39

:

109

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Pteris revoluta Blume

legitimate

Shieh, W.C. (1973), An enumeration of indigenus [sic] pteridophytes in Taiwan.

Quarterly Journal of Chinese Forestry

:

98

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Pteridium aquilinum subsp. wightianum (J.Agardh) W.C.Shieh

legitimate

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

:

1

[secondary reference]

Brownsey, P.J. (1989), The taxonomy of bracken (Pteridium: Dennstaedtiaceae) in Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

120-122, Figs 1-3

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pteris revoluta Blume

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pteris recurvata var. wightiana J.Agardh

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pteridium aquilinum var. wightianum (J.Agardh) R.M.Tryon

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pteridium aquilinum subsp. wightianum (J.Agardh) W.C.Shieh

legitimate

misapplication: Pteridium aquilinum var. lanuginosum (Bory ex Willd.) Luerss. legitimate by

Domin, K. (January 1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

20(85)

: 160-161, Fig. 31 misapplication: Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn legitimate by

Wakefield, N.A. (1956), New combinations in some Australasian ferns - 2.

The Victorian Naturalist

72(10)

: 159

common name:

Hairy bracken

[n/a]

Brownsey, P.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Dennstaedtiaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

225

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pteris revoluta Blume

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pteris recurvata var. wightiana J.Agardh

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pteridium aquilinum var. wightianum (J.Agardh) R.M.Tryon

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pteridium aquilinum subsp. wightianum (J.Agardh) W.C.Shieh

legitimate

misapplication: Pteridium aquilinum var. lanuginosum (Bory ex Willd.) Luerss. legitimate by

Domin, K. (January 1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

20(85)

: 160-161, Fig. 31 misapplication: Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn legitimate by

Wakefield, N.A. (1956), New combinations in some Australasian ferns - 2.

The Victorian Naturalist

72(10)

: 159

APC Dist.: NT, Qld

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

:

36, Fig. 10F, G, map

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pteris revoluta Blume

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Pteridium aquilinum subsp. wightianum (J.Agardh) W.C.Shieh

legitimate

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2016), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2015 census to 2016 census.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2016

:

17

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Pteridium aquilinum subsp. wightianum (J.Agardh) W.C.Shieh

legitimate