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Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn, Filic. Afr. 92 (1868)
Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
Chambers, T.C.; Farrant, P.A. 1996: Four subspecies of the fern Blechnum penna-marina (Blechnaceae: Pteridophyta). Fern Gazette 15(3): 91–100.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Kuhn
Poir.
(Poir.) Kuhn
Kuhn, F.A.M. 1868: Filices Africanae. Engelmann, Leipzig.
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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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Blechnaceae
Blechnum
penna-marina

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Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

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
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
Chambers, T.C.; Farrant, P.A. (1996)
Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn

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Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
Chile
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Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
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Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
New Zealand
Otago Land District
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Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
New Zealand
Southland Land District
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Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
4 Link to an external page
Blechnum penna-marina (Poir.) Kuhn
New Zealand
Westland Land District
14 Link to an external page

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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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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
3 June 2025
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