Parablechnum loxense

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Parablechnum loxense, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera — fig. a Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-10 / obs. 143225023

Parablechnum loxense, photographed by Fabien Anthelme — fig. b Fabien Anthelme, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 102510194

Parablechnum loxense, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ — fig. c GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108517149

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: The New York Botanical Garden
Accession: 4178973
Filed as: Parablechnum loxense (Kunth) Gasper & Salino
Det. by: not recorded on this sheet
Collected: H. H. Rusby 1917-04-03
Origin: CO
The sheet: View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 7 botanical countries

Native distribution of Parablechnum loxense, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Bolivia	BOL	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia	CLM
Costa Rica	COS
Ecuador	ECU
Panamá	PAN
Peru	PER
Venezuela	VEN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Blechnum loxense (Kunth) Hook. ex Salomon
Blechnum loxense (Kunth) Hieron.
Blechnum loxense subsp. stenophyllum (Klotzsch) Lellinger
Blechnum loxense var. stenophyllum (Klotzsch) Lellinger
Blechnum sociale Sodiro
Blechnum squamulosum (Desv.) Mett.
Blechnum stenophyllum (Klotzsch) Mett.
Lomaria loxensis Kunth
Lomaria socialis (Sodiro) Sodiro
Lomaria squamulosa Desv.
Lomaria stenophylla Klotzsch
Pteris pectinata Cav.
Struthiopteris loxensis (Kunth) Maxon

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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