Synonymy
Davallia heterophylla J.E. Smith, 1793: p. 415; Kuhn, 1869: p. 288; Kato, 1989: p. 223; Nooteboom, 1994: p. 185; Nooteboom, 1998: p. 254. - Humata heterophylla Desvaux, 1827: p. 323; John Smith, 1841: p. 416; Hooker, 1845: p. 152; Beddome, 1865: t. 100; Hooker, 1868: p. 88; Beddome, 1883: p. 46; H. Christ, 1898: p. 141, non Desvaux; Copeland, 1905: p. 50; Holttum, 1966: p. 366; Basu and Giri, 1991: p. 111, t. 1, f. 1a-e. - Type: Charles Miller 1778 (BM lectotype) .
Humata ophioglossa Cavanilles, 1802: p. 273; Fée, 1852: p. 322, t. 26A; C. Christensen, 1933a: p. 3161; C. Christensen, 1937: p. 25; Copeland, 1958: p. 180. - Type: Née (BM), Guam.
Humata pinnatifida Cavanilles, 1802: p. 679. - Davallia pinnatifida Swartz, 1806: p. 130. - Type: Née (BM), Marianas.
Davallia heterophylla var. nervosa Baker, 1876b: p. 105. - Humata nervosa Wagner and Grether, 1948: p. 40, t. 12. - Type: Moseley, Challenger Exp. Admiralty Is. (BM, K, P.), Pacific, Admiralty Is.
Davallia lobulosa [Wallich, 1828: n. 241, nomen]. - Davallia longicauda H. Christ, 1896: p. 339. - Type: Wallich 241 (K, P), Malay Peninsula, Penang.