Blechnum

Accepted species 27 Documented here 7 Family Blechnaceae

Accepted species 27 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Blechnum punctulatum Sw. 159 documented
Blechnum appendiculatum Willd. 85 documented
Blechnum occidentale L. 42 documented
Blechnum australe L. 39 documented
Blechnum hastatum Kaulf. 34 documented
Blechnum asplenioides Sw. 12 documented
Blechnum polypodioides Raddi 5 documented
Blechnum × caudatum Cav. 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum × confluens Schltdl. & Cham. 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum × leopoldense (Dutra) V.A.O.Dittrich & Salino 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum × pampasicum de la Sota & M.L.Durán 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum areolatum V.A.O.Dittrich & Salino 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum auriculatum Cav. 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum austrobrasilianum de la Sota 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum gracile Kaulf. 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum gracilipes (Rosenst.) M.Kessler & A.R.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum guayanense A.Rojas 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum heringeri Brade 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum laevigatum Cav. 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum lanceola Sw. 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum longipilosum V.A.O.Dittrich & Salino 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum ludificans Herter 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum malacothrix Maxon & C.V.Morton 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum meridense Klotzsch 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum rivulorum V.A.O.Dittrich & Salino 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum rosulatum V.A.O.Dittrich, Gasper & B.Schindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Blechnum tomentosum M.Kessler & A.R.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.