View source for Blechnum occidentale var. minor

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|accepted_name=Blechnum occidentale var. minor
|accepted_authority=Hooker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Fil.
|place=3: 51. 1860
|year=1860
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|common_names=Hammock fern;New World midsorus fern
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Blechnum glandulosum
|authority=forma pubirachis (Rosenstock) Lellinger
|rank=species
|publication_title=in Link
|publication_place=
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Blechnum occidentale
|authority=
|rank=species
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|name=Blechnum occidentale var. pubirachis
|authority=Rosenstock
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Blechnaceae;Blechnum;Blechnum occidentale;Blechnum occidentale var. minor
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Blechnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Blechnum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Blechnum occidentale]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Blechnum occidentale var. minor]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>slender, creeping, elongate, branched, ascending to erect at tip, not climbing. <b>Leaves</b> ± monomorphic, cespitose to widely spaced, erect to arching, fertile leaves only slightly contracted and longer than sterile leaves. <b>Petiole</b> straw-colored to light brown, (4-)8-34 cm, coarsely scaly proximally. <b>Blade</b> narrowly to broadly lanceolate, 1-pinnate proximally, becoming pinnatifid distally, or pinnatifid throughout, without conform terminal pinna, 10-30 × 3-12 cm, base truncate, pubescent abaxially. <b>Rachis</b> with indument of spreading, ± gland-tipped hairs abaxially. <b>Pinnae</b> not articulate to rachis, proximal pinnae sessile to subsessile, distal pinnae adnate; larger pinnae curved, lanceolate, 2-7 × 0.5-1.5 cm. <b>Fertile</b> pinnae slightly contracted; margins minutely serrulate to nearly entire; costae with indument of hairs abaxially. <b>2n</b> = 124.</span><!--

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|habitat=Rocky and clayey places near seasonally dry streams, shady hammocks or open woods, over limestone, soil nearly neutral
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;La.;Tex.;West Indies;Central America;South America to Bolivia.
|discussion=<p><i>Blechnum occidentale </i>var.<i> minor</i> differs from <i></i>var.<i> occidentale</i> in having rachises slightly pubescent or puberulous abaxially. Both varieties are found throughout the New World tropics; <i>B. occidentale </i>var.<i> minor</i> grows at higher elevations (D. B. Lellinger 1985). The nomenclature of these taxa is complicated, and other names may apply. Systematic problems involving different ploidy levels and apparent geographic clines in <i>Blechnum occidentale</i> sensu lato remain to be solved.</p><!--
--><p>Plants of <i>Blechnum occidentale</i> often reproduce extensively by stolons as well as by spores.</p>
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name=Blechnum occidentale var. minor
|authority=Hooker
|rank=variety
|parent rank=species
|synonyms=Blechnum occidentale;Blechnum occidentale var. pubirachis
|basionyms=Blechnum glandulosum
|family=Blechnaceae
|habitat=Rocky and clayey places near seasonally dry streams, shady hammocks or open woods, over limestone, soil nearly neutral
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;La.;Tex.;West Indies;Central America;South America to Bolivia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Fil.
|publication year=1860
|special status=
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|genus=Blechnum
|species=Blechnum occidentale
|variety=Blechnum occidentale var. minor
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