- Family:
- Aspleniaceae Newman
- Genus:
- Blechnum L.
Blechnum spicant (L.) Roth

Native to:
Alaska, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Azores, Baltic States, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, California, Canary Is., Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Madeira, Morocco, Netherlands, North Caucasus, Northwest European R, Norway, Oregon, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Washington, Yugoslavia
- Asplenium spicant (L.) Ehrh.
- Blechnum boreale Sw.
- Blechnum doodioides Hook.
- Blechnum heterophyllum Opiz
- Blechnum septentrionale Sailer
- Blechnum spicant var. crenatum (C.Presl) T.Moore
- Blechnum spicant var. elongata (Hook.) B.Boivin
- Blechnum spicant var. fallax Lange
- Blechnum spicant var. homophyllum Merino ex Christ
- Blechnum spicant var. pectinatum Clute
- Blechnum spicant f. serratum (Woll ex T.Moore) M.Broun
- Blechnum spicant var. serratum Woll ex T.Moore
- Homophyllum blechnoides Merino
- Lomaria borealis Link
- Lomaria crenata C.Presl
- Lomaria spicant (L.) Desv.
- Lomaria spicant var. elongata Hook.
- Lonchitis-aspera spicant (L.) Farw.
- Lonchitis-aspera spicant var. serrata (Woll ex T.Moore) Farw.
- Onoclea spicant (L.) Hoffm.
- Spicanta borealis C.Presl
- Struthiopteris doodioides Trevis.
- Struthiopteris fallax (Lange) S.Molino, Gabriel y Galán & Wasowicz
- Struthiopteris japanensis Trevis.
- Struthiopteris spicant (L.) Weiss
- Struthiopteris spicant var. crenata (C.Presl) J.K.Henry
- Struthiopteris spicant var. fallax (Lange) Wasowicz & G.Y Galán
- Struthiopteris spicant var. homophyllum (Merino) G.Y Galán & R.Pino
- Struthiopteris spicant var. pradae S.Molino & Gabriel y Galán
- Osmunda borealis Salisb.
- Osmunda spicant L.
- Osmunda spicanthus J.F.Gmel.
- Acrostichum lineatum Cav.
- Acrostichum nemorale Lam.
- Acrostichum spicant (L.) Willd.
- English
- Hard Fern
Blechnum spicant (L.) Roth appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Douglas, D. [s.n.] | K001092778 | Unknown type material | Yes |
First published in Ann. Bot. (Usteri) 10: 56 (1794)
Accepted by
- Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. & Parris, B.S. (2020). Pteridophytes of Turkey - A revised check-list and their relationship to Europe and the West Himalaya. Indian Journal of Forestry 43: 263-284.
- Güner, A. (ed.) (2018). Resimli Türkiye Florası (Illustrated Flora of Turkey) 2: 1-1054. ANG Vakfı/Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi, Istambul.
- Litvinskaya, S.A. & Murtazaliev, R.A. (2013). Flora of the Northern Caucasus: An Atlas and Identification Book: 1-688. Fiton XXI.
- Mirek, Z., Piękoś-Mirkowa, H., Zając, A. & Zając, M (2020). Vascular plants of Poland an annotated checklist: 1-526. W. Szafer institute of botany, Polish academy of sciences, Krakow, Poland.
- Schäfer, H. (2021). Flora of the Azores a field guide: 1-445. Margraf Publishers GmbH.
- Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.
Not accepted by
- 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. [Cited as Struthiopteris spicant.]
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Gonggrijp, S. & al. (2021). Nova Flora Neerlandica, Lycopodiopsida & Polypodiopsida: 1-275. KNVV uitgeverij.
- Litvinskaya, S.A. & Murtazaliev, R.A. (2013). Flora of the Northern Caucasus: An Atlas and Identification Book: 1-688. Fiton XXI.
- Merryweather, J. (2020). Britain's Ferns. A field guide to the clubmosses, quillworts, horsetails and ferns of Great Britain and Ireland: 1-280. Princeton University Press.
- Prelli, R. & Boudrie, M. (2021). Les Fougères et plantes alliées d'Europe: 1-528. BIOTOPE.
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Living Collection Database
Common Names from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Living Collection https://www.kew.org/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
Copyright applied to individual images