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Blechnaceae family

Blechnum ryanii
(Kaulfuss) Hieronymus
, Hedwigia 47: 245.  1908.
Bas.: Lomaria ryanii Kaulfuss (1824).

Lesser Antillean endemic
Terrestrial quite common in elfin shrublands and cloud montane rainforest.
Saba, St. Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada.
The fern is much larger in cloud montane rainforest than in the adjacent elfin shrublands and more likely to produce fertile fronds.

Piton Troumassée
Cloud Montane rainforest


       

Elfin shrublands