Pteris furcata Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1073. 1753.

"Habitat in America meridionali." RCN: 7799.

Type not designated.

Original material: [icon] in Petiver, Pteri-graphia Amer.: 125, t. 6, f. 6. 1712; [icon] in Plumier, Traité Foug. Amér.: 122, t. 141. 1705.

Current name: Dicranoglossum furcatum (L.) J. Sm. (Polypodiaceae).

Note: See Proctor (in Howard, Fl. Lesser Antilles 2: 348. 1977) and Lellinger & Proctor (in Taxon 32: 570. 1983).