Overview
Distribution
Blechnum serrulatum Rich.:
Argentina (South America)
Australia (Oceania)
Belize (Mesoamerica)
Bolivia (South America)
Brazil (South America)
Colombia (South America)
Costa Rica (Mesoamerica)
Ecuador (South America)
El Salvador (Mesoamerica)
French Guiana (South America)
Guatemala (Mesoamerica)
Guyana (South America)
Honduras (Mesoamerica)
Venezuela (South America)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
United States (North America)
Caribbean (Caribbean)
Panama (Mesoamerica)
Nicaragua (Mesoamerica)
Suriname (South America)
Peru (South America)
Malaysia (Asia)
Paraguay (South America)
Argentina (South America)
Australia (Oceania)
Belize (Mesoamerica)
Bolivia (South America)
Brazil (South America)
Colombia (South America)
Costa Rica (Mesoamerica)
Ecuador (South America)
El Salvador (Mesoamerica)
French Guiana (South America)
Guatemala (Mesoamerica)
Guyana (South America)
Honduras (Mesoamerica)
Venezuela (South America)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
United States (North America)
Caribbean (Caribbean)
Panama (Mesoamerica)
Nicaragua (Mesoamerica)
Suriname (South America)
Peru (South America)
Malaysia (Asia)
Paraguay (South America)
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Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez. (eds.) 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75: i–viii, 1–1181.
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National Distribution
United States
Origin: Unknown/Undetermined
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Physical Description
Morphology
Comments
Plants of Blechnum serrulatum occurring in open sun are often dwarfed and stiffly erect. Those occurring in brackish conditions or perennially flooded areas may become hemiepiphytes.
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Description
Stems stout, horizontal and long-creeping, branched, partly erect at tip, rarely climbing tree trunks. Leaves ± monomorphic, widely spaced, erect to arching. Petiole dull yellow or grayish brown or light brown, 10-55 cm, finely scaly proximally. Blade broadly linear to elliptic-lanceolate, 1-pinnate throughout, with conform terminal pinnae, 25-70 × 5-28 cm, base truncate, glabrous. Rachis lacking indument abaxially. Pinnae articulate to rachis except for terminal pinna, subsessile to short-stalked; larger pinnae ± straight, linear to linear-elliptic or linear-lanceolate, 3-15 × 0.5-1.8 cm, fertile pinnae often slightly smaller and contracted; margins serrulate; costae with indument of scales abaxially. 2 n = 72.
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Ecology
Habitat
Depth range based on 2 specimens in 1 taxon.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 0.5 - 0.5
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Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 0.5 - 0.5
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Habitat & Distribution
Swamps, marshes, wet prairies, and adjacent moist pine woods or hammocks; 0 m; Fla.; Central America; South America.
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Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology
Statistics of barcoding coverage: Blechnum serrulatum
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 1
Species: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
Public Records: 1
Species: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Conservation
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