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.