Aspleniaceae

Blechnum L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 1077 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Europe to Tropical & Subtropical and W. U.S.A.

Distribution

Native to:

Alaska, Albania, Algeria, Amsterdam-St.Paul Is, Andaman Is., Angola, Antipodean Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Ascension, Assam, Austria, Azores, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Burundi, California, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., Central American Pac, Chatham Is., Chile Central, Chile South, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Is., Corse, Costa Rica, Crozet Is., Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Easter Is., Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Falkland Is., Fiji, Finland, Florida, France, Free State, French Guiana, Føroyar, Gabon, Galápagos, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Juan Fernández Is., Kenya, Kerguelen, Kermadec Is., Kriti, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Macquarie Is., Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Marion-Prince Edward, Marquesas, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Norfolk Is., North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Northwest European R, Norway, Ogasawara-shoto, Oregon, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Sardegna, Sicilia, Society Is., Solomon Is., South Australia, South Georgia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Tonga, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Tristan da Cunha, Tubuai Is., Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Victoria, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., Washington, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Windward Is., Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Bermuda

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Balkrishna, A., Joshi, B., Sribastava, A., Shankar, R. & Shukla, B.K. (2019). Classification of extant Pteridophytes: a new approach. Indian Fern Journal 36: 311-341.
  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Spruce, R. [4672], Peru K000006871 Yes
Spruce, R. [3950bis], Peru K000006876 Yes
Spruce, R. [4673], Peru K000006864 Yes
Spruce, R. [3950], Peru K000006875 Yes
Christenhuiz, M.J.M. [s.n.] K000696687 No
Gideon, O.G. [LAE78585], Papua New Guinea K000803837 No

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images