Microsorum scolopendria (Burm. f.) Copel., 1929

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 718-782 : 761

Polypodium phymatodes Linnaeus , Mantissa Plantarum Altera: 306. 1771, nom. illeg.

"Habitat in India orientali." RCN: 7860.

Replaced synonym: Polypodium scolopendria Burm. f. (1768) .

Type not designated.

Current name: Microsorum scolopendria (Burm. f.) Copel. ( Polypodiaceae ).

Note: A superfluous name for Polypodium scolopendria Burm. f. (1768) , with which P. phymatodes is therefore homotypic. Roux (in Bothalia 29: 106. 1999) treated 1251.6 (LINN) as the holotype of P. phymatodes , but as there is no indication that it came from Burman, it seems most unlikely that it can be original material for P. scolopendria . Verdcourt (in Beentje, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Polypodiaceae : 24. 2001) indicated Pryon s.n. (G) as lectotype but this was published after 1 Jan 2001 and so the omission of the phrase "designated here" or an equivalent (Art. 7.11) means that the choice is not effective.