Plants › Chain Fern Family

Swamp Kiokio

Blechnum minus

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in New Zealand.January 71, February 49, March 71, April 90, May 54, June 52, July 38, August 36, September 45, October 39, November 45, December 65.
New Zealand655
Australia442
Victoria283
Canterbury Region214
South Australia118
Wellington Region90
Waikato Region72
Auckland Region63
Northland Region47
Tasman Region36

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassFerns · Polypodiopsida
OrderPolypodiales
FamilyChain Fern Family · Blechnaceae
Genushard ferns · Blechnum

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Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Swamp Kiokio with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.