Blechnum wattsii: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Polypodiopsida
- Order
- Polypodiales
- Family
- Blechnaceae
- Genus
- Blechnum
- Species
- Blechnum wattsii
- Scientific Name
- Blechnum wattsii
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Parablechnum wattsii
Parablechnum wattsii, synonym Blechnum wattsii, is a common terrestrial fern growing in rainforest and open forest. It is often seen near creeks in much of south eastern Australia, including Victoria, Tasmania (and King Island), South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland. The specific epithet wattsii honours William Walter Watts (1856-1920). Watts was considered an authority on mosses and ferns and has more than 30 species named for him. Common names by which the species may be called are hard water fern - from its stiff leathery fronds, leech fern - as forest workers often encounter leaches while working in clusters of these ferns, hard hill fern - from the fern's habit and habitat, and red cabbage fern - from the bronze-pink colour of the young fronds resembling cooked red cabbage.
...Blechnum wattsii in languages:
- English
- Hard Water-fern
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
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- Blechnum arcuatum
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- Blechnum blechnoides
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- 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
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- Blechnum eburneum
- Blechnum egregium
- Blechnum ensiforme
- Blechnum falciforme
- Blechnum fernandezianum
- Blechnum filiforme
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- 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
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- Blechnum lherminieri
- Blechnum lineatum
- Blechnum longicauda
- Blechnum longistipitatum
- Blechnum loxense
- Blechnum maximum
- Blechnum medium
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- Blechnum membranaceum
- Blechnum meridense
- Blechnum microphyllum
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- Blechnum novae-zelandiae
- Blechnum novae-zelandiae × procerum
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- Blechnum occidentale
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- Blechnum opacum
- Blechnum orientale
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- Blechnum parrisiae × penna-marina
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- Blechnum penna-marina
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- Blechnum triangularifolium
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