| A community‐derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns PPG I Journal of systematics and evolution 54 (6), 563-603, 2016 | 1318 | 2016 |
| New Zealand ferns and allied plants. PJ Brownsey, JC Smith-Dodsworth New Zealand ferns and allied plants., 1989 | 300 | 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 | 114 | 1985 |
| A taxonomic revision of the New Zealand species of Asplenium PJ Brownsey New Zealand journal of botany 15 (1), 39-86, 1977 | 106 | 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 | 100 | 2007 |
| 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 | 75 | 2005 |
| New Zealand's native trees J Dawson, R Lucas, J Connor, PJ Brownsey Craig Potton, 2011 | 74 | 2011 |
| Historical Antarctic ozone level trends from herbarium specimen flavonoids KR Markham, A Franke, DR Given, P Brownsey Bulletin de Liaison Groupe Polyphenols. XV Conference Proceedings, 230-235, 1990 | 72 | 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 | 71 | 2007 |
| 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 | 68 | 2014 |
| 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 | 61 | 2008 |
| 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 | 56 | 2003 |
| 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 | 55 | 2003 |
| 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 | 53 | 2015 |
| New Zealand's pteridophyte flora—plants of ancient lineage but recent arrival? PJ Brownsey Brittonia 53, 284-303, 2001 | 52 | 2001 |
| 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 | 49 | 2010 |
| Asplenium hybrids in the New Zealand flora PJ Brownsey New Zealand journal of botany 15 (3), 601-637, 1977 | 49 | 1977 |
| 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 | 48 | 1995 |
| Tree-fern skirts: a defence against climbers and large epiphytes CN Page, PJ Brownsey The Journal of Ecology, 787-796, 1986 | 46 | 1986 |
| A molecular phylogeny for the New Zealand Blechnaceae ferns from analyses of chloroplast trn L‐trn F DNA sequences LD Shepherd, LR Perrie, BS Parris, PJ Brownsey New Zealand Journal of Botany 45 (1), 67-80, 2007 | 45 | 2007 |
