200.000 Blechnum
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Description of the genus
Rhizome with brown scales; lamina 1-pinnatifid or 1-pinnate. Fronds strongly dimorphic with fertile and sterile fronds; the fertile overtopping the sterile. Veins free in sterile fronds. Sori extending ± the full length of the fertile pinnae, linear; indusium linear. Derivation of name: blechnon: a fern Worldwide: 150 - 200 species, worldwide, but concentrated in the southern hemisphere Zambia: 2 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| attenuatum (Sw.) Mett. | N | Description, Image |
| tabulare (Thunb.) Kuhn | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
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