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wfo-0001114322
Blechnum occidentale var. minor Hook.

Blechnum occidentale var. minor Hook.
  • Sp. Fil. 3: 51 (1860)
  • Hammock fern, New World midsorus fern


Cite taxon page as 'WFO (2023): Blechnum occidentale var. minor Hook. Published on the Internet;http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0001114322. Accessed on: 28 May 2023'

General Information

Stems slender, creeping, elongate, branched, ascending to erect at tip, not climbing. Leaves ± monomorphic, cespitose to widely spaced, erect to arching, fertile leaves only slightly contracted and longer than sterile leaves. Petiole straw-colored to light brown, (4-)8-34 cm, coarsely scaly proximally. Blade narrowly to broadly lanceolate, 1-pinnate proximally, becoming pinnatifid distally, or pinnatifid throughout, without conform terminal pinna, 10-30 × 3-12 cm, base truncate, pubescent abaxially. Rachis with indument of spreading, ± gland-tipped hairs abaxially. Pinnae not articulate to rachis, proximal pinnae sessile to subsessile, distal pinnae adnate; larger pinnae curved, lanceolate, 2-7 × 0.5-1.5 cm. Fertile pinnae slightly contracted; margins minutely serrulate to nearly entire; costae with indument of hairs abaxially. 2 n = 124.

  • Provided by: [B].Flora of North America @ efloras.org
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    Other Local Names

    NameLanguageCountry
    Hammock fern, New World midsorus fern

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     Information From

    Aspleniaceae
    http://www.worldfloraonline.org/organisation/Aspleniaceae
    World Flora Online Data. 2021.
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    Flora of North America @ efloras.org
    http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=1
    'Flora of North America @ eFloras (2008). Published on the Internet http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=1 [accessed August 2016]' Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
    • B Flora of North America Association