Blechnaceae

• Blechnum fraxineum W/C
• Blechnum polypodioides W/C
• Doodia caudata
• Stenochlaena palustris
• Stenochlaena tenuifolia

• Common Name: Small Rasp Fern
• Family: Blechnaceae (C. Presl) Copel.

• Country of Origin: Australia to New Zealand
• Habitat: temperate to subtropical terrestrial fern

• Description: "Rhizome short-creeping or tufted, covered with dark scales.

  Fronds almost erect to decumbent, dimorphic, narrow-lanceolate, 15–30 cm high; stipe short, pale but dark towards base; lamina dark green, almost membranous to ± leathery, 1-pinnatifid to 1-pinnate with more than 1 pair of pinnae free, sessile to shortly stalked.

  Sori in 1 row on each side of midrib and close to it, variable, ± circular to elongate, 1.5–2 mm long, becoming confluent with age."¹