Blechnum gracile

Taxonavigation edit

Taxonavigation: Polypodiales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Tracheophyta Divisio: Pteridophyta Classis: Polypodiopsida Ordo: Polypodiales

Blechnum gracile Kaulf., Enum. Fil. 158. 1824.

Homotypic
- Blechnum longifolium var. gracile (Kaulf.) Mett. in Triana & Planchon, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 5, 2: 224. 1864.
- Spicanta fraxinea var. gracilis (Kaulf.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 821. 1891.
Heterotypic
- Blechnum fendleri Hook., Sp. 3: 48, t. 158. 1860.
  - Blechnum longifolium var. fendleri (Hook.) Baker in Martius, Fl. Bras. 1(2): 424. 1870.
  - Spicanta fendleri (Hook.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 821. 1891.
- Blechnum fraxineum Willd., Sp. 6: 413. 1810.
  - Distaxia fraxinea (Willd.) C.Presl, Abh. Kön. Böhm. Ges. Wiss. 5(6) (Epim. Bot.): 110: 261. 1851.
  - Blechnum longifolium var. fraxinea (Willd.) Hieron., Hedwigia 47: 234. 1908.
  - Spicanta fraxinea (Willd.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 821. 1891.
- Blechnum intermedium Link, Hort. Berol. 2: 75. 1833.
  - Blechnum longifolium var. intermedium (Link) Baker in Martius, Fl. Bras. 1(2): 424. 1870.
- Blechnum lellingerianum L.D.Gómez, Phytologia 51(7): 474. 1982.
- Blechnum subdimorphum Copel., Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 19: 288, t. 38. 1941.

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Northern America
- Regional: Mexico
  - Mexico Central (Puebla), Mexico Gulf (Veracruz), Mexico Northeast (Querétaro), Mexico Southeast (Chiapas, Tabasco), Mexico Southwest (Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit, Oaxaca).
Continental: Southern America
- Regional: Central America
  - Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama.
- Regional: Caribbean
  - Cuba, Trinidad-Tobago.
- Regional: Northern South America
  - French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela (Anzoategui, Aragua, Barinas, Carabobo, Lara, Miranda, Portuguesa, Yaracuy, Barinas, Cojedes, Falcon, Lara, Merida, Monagas, Sucre, Tachira, Zulia).
- Regional: Western South America
  - Bolivia (Cochabamba, La Paz, Santa Cruz), Colombia (Amazonas, Antioquia, Caquet, Cauca, Cesar, Choc, Cundinamarca, Huila, Magdalena, Meta, Putumayo, Tolima, Valle), Ecuador, Peru.
- Regional: Brazil
  - Brazil South (Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina), Brazil Southeast (Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo).
- Regional: Southern South America
  - Argentina Northeast (Misiones), Paraguay (Canindeyu, Paraguari).

Kaulfuss, G.F. 1824. Enumeratio Filicum quas im Itinere Circa Terram Legit Cl. Adalbertus de Chamisso Adiectis in Omnia Harum Plantarum Genera Permultasque Species non Satis Cognitas vel Novas Animadversionibus. 300 pp., Lipsia [Leipzig]: Carolus Cnobloch. MDZ Reference page.

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