Polypodium varium Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1090. 1753.

"Habitat in China. Osbeck." RCN: 7893.

Type not designated.

Original material: none traced.

Current name: Dryopteris varia (L.) Kuntze ( Dryopteridaceae).

Note: See Hansen & Fox Maule (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 67: 207. 1973) for comments on Osbeck material.