Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Blechnum puberulum
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Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Pteridophyta
Class
Pteridopsida
Order
Athyriales
Family
Blechnaceae
Genus
Blechnum
Species
puberulum
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Blechnum occidentale var. puberulum Sodiro fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010), Blechnum occidentale var. caudatum sensu Hooker, pro parte with respect to Galápagos specimens, fide Wiggins & Porter (1971)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Jørgensen, P.M. León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999) Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, 1181 pp.
- Lawesson, J.E. Adsersen, H. & Bentley, P. (1987) An updated and annotated check list of the vascular plants of the Galapagos islands. Rept. Bot. Inst., Univ. Aarhus 16: 1-74.
- Porter, D.M. (1980) The vascular plants of Joseph Dalton Hooker's "An Enumeration of the plants of the Galápagos Archipelago; with descriptions of those which are new". Bot. J. Linnean Soc. 81: 79-134.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Blechnum puberulum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=16587. Accessed 30 October 2026.