Blechnum penna-marina: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Polypodiopsida
- Order
- Polypodiales
- Family
- Blechnaceae
- Genus
- Blechnum
- Species
- Blechnum penna-marina
- Scientific Name
- Blechnum penna-marina
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Austroblechnum penna-marina
Austroblechnum penna-marina, synonym Blechnum penna-marina, known as Antarctic hard-fern, Little Hard Fern, Alpine Hard Fern, alpine water fern and pinque (Chilean Spanish), is a species of fern in the family Blechnaceae. It is a widely distributed fern species in the southern hemisphere, with a natural range including New Zealand, Australia, and South America.
It has wiry rhizomes and exhibits strong dimorphism in its fronds. The sterile fronds are prostrate or semi-erect, growing up to 400 mm in length, while the fertile fronds are longer and held erect. The sterile fronds have a yellow-brown stem, while the fertile fronds have a purplish-black stipe. Both types of fronds have pinnatisect laminae with free veins. The sterile fronds have 12–44 pairs of triangular or oblong pinnae, while the fertile fronds have 10–36 pairs of linear to narrowly oblong pinnae, which are replaced by tiny sterile flanges at the base.
This fern prefers coastal to alpine environments, including open forests, grasslands, subalpine scrub, alpine herb fields, creek beds, river terraces, and rocky herb fields. It can be found from sea level up to 1900 meters above sea level. The preferred temperature range for its productivity is 6 to 11 degrees Celsius. It faces predation from endemic alpine grasshoppers such as Brachaspis nivalis, Paprides nitidus, and Sigaus australis.
...Blechnum penna-marina in languages:
- Danish
- krybende kambregne
- English
- little hard fern
- English
- Small fern
- Lithuanian
- Uolinė unksmenė
- Russian
- Блехнум перисто-морская
- Swedish
- dvärgbräken
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Blechnum ambiguum
- Blechnum appendiculatum
- Blechnum arcuatum
- Blechnum articulatum
- Blechnum asperum
- Blechnum asplenioides
- Blechnum attenuatum
- Blechnum australe
- Blechnum austrobrasilianum
- Blechnum austrocaledonicum
- Blechnum biforme
- Blechnum binerve
- Blechnum blechnoides
- Blechnum brackenridgei
- Blechnum brasiliense
- Blechnum buchtienii
- Blechnum camfieldii
- Blechnum capense
- Blechnum caudatum
- Blechnum chambersii
- Blechnum chauliodontum
- Blechnum chilense
- Blechnum chiriquanum
- Blechnum colensoi
- Blechnum confusum
- Blechnum contiguum
- Blechnum corbassonii
- Blechnum cordatum
- Blechnum corralense
- Blechnum dendrophilum
- Blechnum divergens
- Blechnum diversifolium
- Blechnum durum
- Blechnum eburneum
- Blechnum egregium
- Blechnum ensiforme
- Blechnum falciforme
- Blechnum fernandezianum
- Blechnum filiforme
- Blechnum finlaysonianum
- Blechnum floresii
- Blechnum fragile
- Blechnum francii
- Blechnum fullagari
- Blechnum geniculatum
- Blechnum gibbum
- Blechnum glaziovii
- Blechnum gracile
- Blechnum gregsonii
- Blechnum hastatum
- Blechnum hieronymi
- Blechnum hirsutum
- Blechnum howeanum
- Blechnum humbertii
- Blechnum inflexum
- Blechnum kermadecense
- Blechnum laevigatum
- Blechnum lanceolatum
- Blechnum lehmannii
- Blechnum lenormandii
- Blechnum lherminieri
- Blechnum lineatum
- Blechnum longicauda
- Blechnum longistipitatum
- Blechnum loxense
- Blechnum maximum
- Blechnum medium
- Blechnum melanocaulon
- Blechnum membranaceum
- Blechnum meridense
- Blechnum microphyllum
- Blechnum milnei
- Blechnum minus
- Blechnum mochaenum
- Blechnum molle
- Blechnum monomorphum
- Blechnum montanum
- Blechnum moorei
- Blechnum nesophilum
- Blechnum norfolkianum
- Blechnum novae-zelandiae
- Blechnum novae-zelandiae × procerum
- Blechnum nudum
- Blechnum obtusatum
- Blechnum occidentale
- Blechnum oceanicum
- Blechnum opacum
- Blechnum orientale
- Blechnum parrisiae
- Blechnum parrisiae × penna-marina
- Blechnum paschale
- Blechnum patersonii
- Blechnum penna-marina
- Blechnum petiolare
- Blechnum polypodioides
- Blechnum procerum
- Blechnum proliferum
- Blechnum puberulum
- Blechnum punctulatum
- Blechnum revolutum
- Blechnum rimbachii
- Blechnum ryanii
- Blechnum schiedeanum
- Blechnum schottii
- Blechnum simillimum
- Blechnum spannagelii
- Blechnum stipitellatum
- Blechnum stoloniferum
- Blechnum subcordatum
- Blechnum triangularifolium
- Blechnum tuerckheimii
- Blechnum usterianum
- Blechnum vestitum
- Blechnum vieillardii
- Blechnum wardiae
- Blechnum wattsii
- Blechnum zeelandicum
- Blechnum × aggregatum
- Blechnum × digenum
- Blechnum × leopoldense
- Blechnum × rodriguezii
- Parablechnum cordatum
- Parablechnum marginatum
- Parablechnum sessilifolium
- Parablechnum stipitellatum
- Parablechnum tuerckheimii































































































































































