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 Nephrodium shepherdi

Dryopteridaceae Herter

Nephrodium shepherdi Fée

, nom. inval., nom. nud.

, scientific

Fée, A.L.A. (1852), Genera Filicum. Exposition des Genres de la Famille des Polypodiacees.

Mémoires sur la famille des Fougères

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305

BHL

[primary reference]

Comment: Fee cites "Aspidium, KZE." in synonymy. G.Kunze, Linnaea 23: 230 (1850), listed "Aspidium Shepherdi" but as a nomen nudum it was not validly published and cannot serve as the basionym for a new combination.

Christensen, C.F.A. (1944), A new combination in Dryopteris.

The Victorian Naturalist

:

155

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Dryopteris shepherdii (Kunze ex Mett.) C.Chr.

legitimate

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

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series

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67

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Lastreopsis shepherdii (Kunze ex Mett.) Tindale

legitimate

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

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium

:

294

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Lastreopsis shepherdii (Kunze ex Mett.) Tindale

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Lastreopsis acuminata (Houlston) C.V.Morton

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Lastreopsis acuminata (Houlston) C.V.Morton

legitimate

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

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Parapolystichum acuminatum (Houlston) Labiak, Sundue & R.C.Moran

legitimate