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Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn

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Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn, Filic. Afr. 92 (1868)
Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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(Poir.) Kuhn
Poir.
Kuhn
1868
92
ICN
Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
species
Blechnum penna-marina
From the Latin penna (feather) and marina (sea), a reference to the habitat and appearance of this species.

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penna-marina

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Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn

Rhizome wiry, creeping, sparingly branched, up to 30 cm. or more long, and 3 mm. diam.; clad in pale brown to ferruginous ovate-acuminate paleae, c. 5 mm. long; stipites distributed, but often clustered. Stipes slender, shining, reddish brown, paleate to nude; of sterile frond procumbent to ascending, 2-15 cm. long; of fertile erect, 5-25 cm. long. Rhachis nude or nearly so, with numerous subopp. pinnae. Sterile lamina subcoriac. to submembr., green to bronze-green, linear to narrow-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, pinnate to pinnatifid, 5-15-(30) cm. × 10-15 mm. Pinnae close-set 3-5-(10) cm. × 2-5 mm., oblong to triangular, obtuse to subacute, crenulate. Fertile lamina 5-10 cm. × 6-10 mm.; pinnae narrow-linear to oblong, ± arcuate, distant, often with basal lobe. Sori covering whole of undersurface.

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Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn

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Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
Chile
Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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Etymology
From the Latin penna (feather) and marina (sea), a reference to the habitat and appearance of this species.

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9369ee73-d7f0-4f04-9e10-f1adc476a172
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
17 September 2020
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