| A community‐derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns PPG I Journal of systematics and evolution 54 (6), 563-603, 2016 | 1647 | 2016 |
| New Zealand ferns and allied plants. PJ Brownsey, JC Smith-Dodsworth | 299 | 1989 |
| A revised classification of New Zealand pteridophytes with a synonymic checklist of species PJ Brownsey, DR Given, JD Lovis New Zealand journal of botany 23 (3), 431-489, 1985 | 118 | 1985 |
| A taxonomic revision of the New Zealand species of Asplenium PJ Brownsey New Zealand journal of botany 15 (1), 39-86, 1977 | 107 | 1977 |
| Fire and ice: volcanic and glacial impacts on the phylogeography of the New Zealand forest fern Asplenium hookerianum LD Shepherd, LR Perrie, PJ Brownsey Molecular Ecology 16 (21), 4536-4549, 2007 | 103 | 2007 |
| New Zealand's native trees J Dawson, R Lucas, J Connor, PJ Brownsey Craig Potton, 2011 | 82 | 2011 |
| Insights into the biogeography and polyploid evolution of New Zealand Asplenium from chloroplast DNA sequence data LR Perrie, PJ Brownsey American Fern Journal 95 (1), 1-21, 2005 | 77 | 2005 |
| Molecular phylogenetics and generic taxonomy of Blechnaceae ferns LR Perrie, RK Wilson, LD Shepherd, DJ Ohlsen, EL Batty, PJ Brownsey, ... Taxon 63 (4), 745-758, 2014 | 75 | 2014 |
| Historical Antarctic ozone level trends from herbarium specimen flavonoids KR Markham, A Franke, DR Given, P Brownsey Bulletin de liaison du Groupe Polyphenols 15, 230-235, 1990 | 74 | 1990 |
| Molecular evidence for long‐distance dispersal in the New Zealand pteridophyte flora L Perrie, P Brownsey Journal of Biogeography 34 (12), 2028-2038, 2007 | 73 | 2007 |
| Low-copy nuclear DNA sequences reveal a predominance of allopolyploids in a New Zealand Asplenium fern complex LD Shepherd, LR Perrie, PJ Brownsey Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49 (1), 240-248, 2008 | 63 | 2008 |
| Phylogeny of the fern family Aspleniaceae in Australasia and the south-western Pacific DJ Ohlsen, LR Perrie, LD Shepherd, PJ Brownsey, MJ Bayly Australian Systematic Botany 27 (6), 355-371, 2015 | 60 | 2015 |
| Biogeography of temperate Australasian Polystichum ferns as inferred from chloroplast sequence and AFLP LR Perrie, PJ Brownsey, PJ Lockhart, EA Brown, MF Large Journal of Biogeography 30 (11), 1729-1736, 2003 | 57 | 2003 |
| New Zealand's pteridophyte flora—plants of ancient lineage but recent arrival? PJ Brownsey Brittonia 53, 284-303, 2001 | 57 | 2001 |
| Evidence for an allopolyploid complex in New Zealand Polystichum (Dryopteridaceae) LR Perrie, PJ Brownsey, PJ Lockhart, MF Large New Zealand Journal of Botany 41 (2), 189-215, 2003 | 56 | 2003 |
| Checklist of dicotyledons, gymnosperms, and pteridophytes naturalised or casual in New Zealand: additional records 1988–1993 CJ Webb, WR Sykes, PJ Garnock-Jones, PJ Brownsey New Zealand journal of botany 33 (2), 151-182, 1995 | 52 | 1995 |
| Parallel polyploid speciation: distinct sympatric gene‐pools of recurrently derived allo‐octoploid Asplenium ferns LR Perrie, LD Shepherd, PJ De Lange, PJ Brownsey Molecular Ecology 19 (14), 2916-2932, 2010 | 50 | 2010 |
| Asplenium hybrids in the New Zealand flora PJ Brownsey New Zealand journal of botany 15 (3), 601-637, 1977 | 50 | 1977 |
| Tree-fern skirts: a defence against climbers and large epiphytes CN Page, PJ Brownsey The Journal of Ecology, 787-796, 1986 | 49 | 1986 |
| A molecular phylogeny for the New Zealand Blechnaceae ferns from analyses of chloroplast trnL‐trnF DNA sequences LD Shepherd, LR Perrie, BS Parris, PJ Brownsey New Zealand Journal of Botany 45 (1), 67-80, 2007 | 44 | 2007 |
