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Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.

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Blechnum parrisiae Christenh. in Christenhusz et al., Phytotaxa 19: 20 (2011)
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Christenh.
Christenh.
2011
20
parrisii
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Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
species
Blechnum parrisiae
Named in honour of Barbara Sydney Parris (1945–), New Zealand pteridologist with special interest in Doodia and gammitid ferns.
Holotype: Kitekite Falls, Piha, Auckland, B.S. Parris, 26 May 1966, CHR 202053

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parrisiae

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Vegetative reproduction by stolons or short branching of the rhizome. Rhizome rarely prostrate and creeping; clad in dense black paleae. Fertile and sterile fronds similar to moderately dimorphic. Fronds more or less erect or sterile fronds sometimes inclined to prostrate; harsh; lamina 11-60 cm long. Stipes and raches bearing brown scales which are more persistent at the stipe base but are often shed; pubescent. Lower pinnae attached by costae, sometimes with auricles developed, or very rarely adnate to the rachis as in D. aspera, lowest pair rarely longer than the pairs immediately above them; middle pinnae usually completely, but often partly, adnate, occasionally decurrent, rarely auriculate (see Fig. 1d); upper pinnae adnate to decurrent. Pinnae c. 20-50 pairs or subopposite; middle pinnae rounded, acute or acuminate at apex. Terminal pinna 0.3-5.5 cm long ( (1/3 -) 1/9-- 1/43 of frond length). Longest pinnae 0.5-10 cm long, 2.5-10 mm wide. Distance between middle pinnae 1-8 mm (½-2 × pinna width). Sori in one row, a second row often partly to nearly completely developed; discrete to more or less confluent, sometimes covering pinna midrib. Indusium c. 2 mm long, rarely less, more or less linear.
Differt a D. media ssp. media quod transitio a pinnis costalibus ad pinnas decurrentes gradata est.

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Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
Doodia australis (Parris) Parris
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
Doodia media sensu Dobbie & Crookes
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
Doodia media subsp. australis Parris
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.

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Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Blechnum parrisiae Christenh.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District

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typification
Holotype: Kitekite Falls, Piha, Auckland, B.S. Parris, 26 May 1966, CHR 202053
Etymology
Named in honour of Barbara Sydney Parris (1945–), New Zealand pteridologist with special interest in Doodia and gammitid ferns.

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22 September 2014
15 September 2020
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