Blechnum fluviatile (R.Br.) Lowe ex Salomon

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Name scientific

Blechnum fluviatile (R.Br.) Lowe ex Salomon, Nomencl. Gefässkrypt. 115 (1883)

Preferred name

Blechnum fluviatile (R.Br.) Lowe ex Salomon

Taxonomy reference

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.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Brownsey, P.J.; Smith-Dodsworth, J.C. (2000)

Nomenclature

Authors

(R.Br.) Lowe ex Salomon

Original authors

R.Br.

Combination authors

Salomon

Publication place

Salomon, C. 1883: Nomenclator der Gefässkryptogamen. Hugo Voigt, Leipzig.

Year published

1883

Publication page

115

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Stegania fluviatilis R.Br.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Blechnum fluviatile

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Blechnaceae

Genus

Blechnum

Species

fluviatile

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Language of use: Māori

Synonyms

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

is host of

Echinolejeunea papillata (Mitt.) R.M.Schust. ex Hamlin

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

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

Blechnum fluviatile (R.Br.) Lowe ex Salomon

Description

Rhizome stout, erect, clad in brown subulate-attenuate paleae c. 1 cm. long; stipites numerous, tufted, paleate at base. Stipes 5-20 cm. long, slender to stout, dark brown, procumbent to ascending, ± paleate, bearing up to 50 pairs of pinnae. Sterile lamina 25-40-(75) × 2-4 cm., linear to narrow-linear, spreading, dull green, submembr. Pinnae up to 2 × 1 cm., oblong to obovate-oblong, slightly narrowed to sessile base or very shortly stalked, subopp. to alt., minutely crenulate-dentate to sinuate. Fertile lamina erect, up to 30 cm. long, linear; pinnae ascending to erect, linear-oblong, up to 2 cm. long. Sori covering whole of undersurface, indusium becoming erose.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.