Blechnum

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Blechnaceae

• Scientific Name

  Blechnum

• Description

  
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  Description - Terrestrial ferns with stout rootstocks and clustered pinnate leaves, the veinlets of the fertile pinnae joined transversely near the base. Sori linear, contiguous, parallel with the midvein of leaf-segments and close to it, the indusium membranous. [Greek, tasteless.] Forty species or more, mostly tropical in distribution. Type species: Blechnum orientate L.