External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17015960-1
- Publication
- Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae van-Diemen
- Collation
- 15
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Cyatheaceae
Original Data
- Remarks
- Polypodium L. sp. 2. 1093. 1753; Cyathea Sw. 1801; Disphenia Pr. 1836;Hemitelia Fee 1850-52 -- Gymnosphaera aculeata J. Sm. 1842; Alsophila Hk.1844; A. echinata Moore 1857 -- A. Eatoni Jenm. 1887.
- Distribution
- Ind. occ. Costa Rica.
Nomenclatural Notes
Status: nom. inval. Brown cited Cyathea aspera Smith and thus indirectly reffered to the basionym Polypodium asperum L.; he, however, did not combine the epithet aspera with Alsophila to make A. aspera