- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17027320-1
- Publication
- Species Filicum
- Collation
- 4: 26, t.227
- Date of Publication
- 1862
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Dryopteridaceae
Type Information
- Locality
- ‘Hab. New Zealand, on elevated mountains : Northern Island. Dieffenbach [s.n., s.d.]; Middle Island, Discovery Peaks, 5800 feet, Travers [s.n.. s.d.]; Rocks in Waira gorge, alt. 4400 feet, in extremely exposed cold situations, Sinclair [s.n., s.d.]. Between Lake Tennyson and the west coast, C. Mailing [s.n., s.d.]'
- Distribution Of Types
- New Zealand (Australasia)
Remarks
The epithet cystostegia is a noun in apposition. Etymology: Greek cystis, bladder, sac, and stegos, roof, lid [protologue: ‘the involucres are unlike those of any other species, being singularly thin and membranaceous, covering the sori with a large (in proportion to the size of the plant) hemispherical peltate bladdery lid.’]