200.000 Blechnum L.

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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	Provinces	Content
attenuatum (Sw.) Mett.	N	Mc	Description, Image
tabulare (Thunb.) Kuhn	N,W,C,E	Nw,Lp,Mc,C	Description, Image

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