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|accepted_name=Blechnum serrulatum
|accepted_authority=Richard
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Actes Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris
|place=1: 114. 1792
|year=1792
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|common_names=Swamp fern;marsh fern;dentate midsorus fern
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Blechnaceae;Blechnum;Blechnum serrulatum
|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 serrulatum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="stem fragility or size;stem orientation;stem growth form or orientation;stem architecture;stem orientation;trunk growth form;trunk growth form"><b>Stems </b>stout, horizontal and long-creeping, branched, partly erect at tip, rarely climbing tree trunks.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="leaf architecture;leaf arrangement;leaf orientation;leaf orientation;leaf orientation"><b>Leaves </b>± monomorphic, widely spaced, erect to arching.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="petiole coloration;petiole coloration;petiole coloration;petiole coloration;petiole some measurement;petiole architecture or pubescence"><b>Petiole </b>dull yellow or grayish brown or light-brown, 10-55 cm, finely scaly proximally.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;blade architecture or shape;blade length;blade width;base architecture or shape;base pubescence"><b>Blade </b>broadly linear to elliptic-lanceolate, 1-pinnate throughout, with conform terminal pinnae, 25-70 × 5-28 cm, base truncate, glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="indument count"><b>Rachis </b>lacking indument abaxially.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="pinna architecture;pinna architecture;pinna architecture;pinna architecture"><b>Pinnae </b>articulate to rachis except for terminal pinna, subsessile to short-stalked;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="larger pinna course;larger pinna arrangement or course or shape;larger pinna condition or size;pinna shape;pinna shape;pinna length;pinna width;pinna reproduction;pinna size">larger pinnae ± straight, linear to linear-elliptic or linear-lanceolate, 3-15 × 0.5-1.8 cm, fertile pinnae often slightly smaller and contracted;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="margin architecture or shape">margins serrulate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="">costae with indument of scales abaxially.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="2n chromosome count">2n = 72.</span><!--

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|habitat=Swamps, marshes, wet prairies, and adjacent moist pine woods or hammocks
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=Fla.;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>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.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Blechnum serrulatum
|author=
|authority=Richard
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Blechnaceae
|habitat=Swamps, marshes, wet prairies, and adjacent moist pine woods or hammocks
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=Fla.;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Actes Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris
|publication year=1792
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/287ef3db526bd807d435a3c7423ef2df1e951227/V2/V2_372.xml
|genus=Blechnum
|species=Blechnum serrulatum
|2n chromosome count=72
|base architecture or shape=truncate
|base pubescence=glabrous
|blade architecture or shape=1-pinnate
|blade length=25cm;70cm
|blade shape=broadly linear;elliptic-lanceolate
|blade width=5cm;28cm
|indument count=lacking
|larger pinna arrangement or course or shape=linear
|larger pinna condition or size=contracted
|larger pinna course=straight
|leaf architecture=monomorphic
|leaf arrangement=spaced
|leaf orientation=erect;arching
|margin architecture or shape=serrulate
|petiole architecture or pubescence=scaly
|petiole coloration=light-brown;grayish brown;yellow;dull
|petiole some measurement=10cm;55cm
|pinna architecture=subsessile;short-stalked
|pinna length=3cm;15cm
|pinna reproduction=fertile
|pinna shape=linear-lanceolate;linear-elliptic
|pinna size=smaller
|pinna width=0.5cm;1.8cm
|stem architecture=branched
|stem fragility or size=stout
|stem growth form or orientation=long-creeping
|stem orientation=erect;horizontal
|trunk growth form=tree;climbing
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