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“Chambers & Farrant (2012) noted that the taxonomy of the Blechnum vulcanicum aggregate was complex, and that the whole group could either be regarded as one species, or divided into several taxa. Subsequently, Chambers & Wilson (2019) revised the B. vulcanicum group and recognised 13 species in Blechnum sect. Pilosa in Malesia, Australasia and Oceania. Under this classification, accepted here, Blechnum vulcanicum sens. str. was considered to be confined to Malesia, and the species in Australia and New Zealand referred to B. deltoides. Ten other species were recognised in the Pacific region.”

Brownsey, P.J.; Perrie, L.R. 2021: Blechnaceae. In: Breitwieser, I. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand — Ferns and Lycophytes. Fascicle 29. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.