Parablechnum minus(R.Br.) Gasper & Salino

WFO wfo-0001346900 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Parablechnum minus, photographed by Joe Dillon
fig. a Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203786503
Parablechnum minus, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. b Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 193577016
Parablechnum minus, photographed by Kelvin Perrie
fig. c Kelvin Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191993875
Parablechnum minus, photographed by Tom Ferguson
fig. d Tom Ferguson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 191441545
Parablechnum minus, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. e Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195870365
Parablechnum minus, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. f Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195870316
Parablechnum minus, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. g Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195867625
Parablechnum minus, photographed by Penelope Noel Gillette
fig. h Penelope Noel Gillette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186322092

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Parablechnum minus is native: Antipodean Is., Chatham Is., New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria New South WalesNew Zealand NorthNew Zealand SouthQueenslandSouth AustraliaTasmaniaVictoria Antipodean Is.Chatham Is.
Native distribution of Parablechnum minus, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Antipodean Is. ATP AUSTRALASIA
Chatham Is. CTM
New South Wales NSW
New Zealand North NZN
New Zealand South NZS
Queensland QLD
South Australia SOA
Tasmania TAS
Victoria VIC

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 7 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 capense var. minus (R.Br.) Domin
  • Blechnum minus (R.Br.) Ettingsh.
  • Blechnum minus subsp. minus
  • Lomaria minor (R.Br.) Spreng.
  • Lomaria procera var. minor (R.Br.) Hook.f.
  • Lomaria procera var. paludosa Rodway
  • Stegania minor R.Br.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. 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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