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256 M. J. M. CHRISTENHUSZ<br />

Habitat: rare and local fern and not recently collected,<br />

endemic to the Lesser Antilles.<br />

Material examined: BASSE TERRE: Rivière Saint<br />

Louis, habitations Rivière Noire, l’Herminier 14 (P).<br />

Note: This species resembles D. cristatum and D.<br />

caracasanum, but the specimens found on Guadeloupe<br />

and St Vincent differ in pinna shape and size<br />

and consitute a distinct taxon.<br />

BLECHNACEAE<br />

191. Blechnum ¥ antillanum Proctor, Brit. Fern Gaz.<br />

9: 214. 1965. Type: Jamaica, Anon. J.P. 282 (holotype<br />

IJ!).<br />

Localities: BASSE TERRE: Ravine Karukéra<br />

(GUAD), Dieuxième Chute du Carbet, on an enormous<br />

isolated rock (Vivant, 1987b).<br />

Note: Reportedly a hybrid between Blechnum occidentale<br />

L and B. fraxineum Willd., the latter species does<br />

not occur on Guadeloupe.<br />

192. Blechnum binervatum (Poir.) C.V.Morton & Lellinger,<br />

Amer. Fern J. 57: 67. 1967.<br />

Polypodium binervatum Poir. in Lamarck, Encycl. 5:<br />

521. 1804. Type: Locality unknown, Anon. (holotype<br />

P-JU!-1365).<br />

Lomaria martinicensis Spreng., Neue Entd. Pflanzenk.<br />

3: 5. 1822. Type: Martinique, Sieber Fl. Martinic.<br />

no. 359 (isotype P!).<br />

Lomaria plumieri Desv., Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin<br />

Mag Neuesten Entdeck. Gesammten Naturk. 5:<br />

325. 1811. Lectotype (designated here): Herbarium<br />

Vaillant 14 (P!).<br />

Habitat: rare hemi-epiphyte on tree fern trunks.<br />

Material examined: BASSE TERRE: Bains Jaunes,<br />

Allorge s.n. anno 1936 (P); Savane aux Ananas,<br />

Allorge s.n. anno 1936 (P); Rivière Rouge, Allorge s.n.<br />

anno 1936 (P). Localities: Trace Karukéra and near<br />

Première Chute du Carbet (Vivant, 1988).<br />

193. Blechnum divergens (Kunze) Mett., Ann. Sci.<br />

Nat. Bot. sér. 5, 2: 255. 1864.<br />

Lomaria divergens Kunze, Linnaea 9: 57. 1834. Type:<br />

Peru, Pampayaco, Poeppig s.n. [Diar. 1141] (holotype<br />

LZ, destroyed). Neotype (designated here):<br />

Guadeloupe, Bains Jaunes, Christenhusz 3992<br />

(TUR!, isoneotypes NY!, P!).<br />

Lomaria exaltata Fée & l’Herm., Mém. Fam. Foug. 11:<br />

10, tab. 3. 1866. Lectotype (designated by Mickel &<br />

Beitel, 1988): Guadeloupe, l’Herminier s.n. anno<br />

1861 (P!; duplicates P!, NY!; the BM specimen is not<br />

a type).<br />

Habitat: terrestrial fern of wet glades and slopes in<br />

montane rainforest.<br />

Material examined: BASSE TERRE: Grande Découverte,<br />

Christenhusz 4173 (TUR); 4213 (P, TUR).<br />

194. Blechnum insularum C.V.Mort. & Lell., Amer.<br />

Fern J. 57: 70. 1967. Type: Saint Vincent, Cumberland<br />

Mountain, 750–1000 m, 14 May 1947, Morton<br />

5822 (holotype US!-02358423).<br />

Habitat: very rare plants of high-elevation elfin woodland,<br />

listed for Guadeloupe by Fournet & Hoff (1999).<br />

195. Blechnum lherminieri (Bory) C.Chr., Index Filic.<br />

156. 1905. (Fig. 7B).<br />

Lomaria lherminieri Bory in Kunze, Farrnkr. 173.<br />

1845. Type: Guadeloupe, Bois de La Soufrière,<br />

Anon. Herbarium Bory 201 (holotype P!).<br />

Habitat: terrestrial fern of wet glades and slopes in<br />

montane rainforest.<br />

Material examined: BASSE TERRE: Bains Jaunes,<br />

Christenhusz 2765 (TUR); Duss 4166 (P); Questel<br />

1124 (P); Beausoleil, Route de La Soufrière, Barrier<br />

2345A (P); Camp Jacob, Duss 859 (P); Matouba,<br />

Morne Papaye, Duss 4167 (P); Grande Découverte,<br />

Christenhusz 4131 (P, TUR); Plateau Dimba, Christenhusz<br />

4012 (P, TUR).<br />

196. Blechnum occidentale L., Sp. Pl. 1077. 1753 [as<br />

B. orientale, a transposition of names, corrected in<br />

L., Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 1763]. Lectotype (designated by<br />

Proctor, 1977): ‘Habitat in America meridionali’,<br />

Anon. (LINN 1247.1).<br />

Blechnum confluens Schltdl. et Cham., Linnaea 5:<br />

613. 1830. Type: Mexico, Hacienda Laguna, Schiede<br />

779 (holotype B; isotype NY). This name was cited<br />

by Fournet & Hoff (1999), but according to Mickel &<br />

Beitel (1988), this may be a hybrid between B.<br />

occidentale and B. polypodioides Raddi.<br />

Habitat: common, terrestrial rather weedy fern of<br />

distrubed rainforests, roadsides, field edges and<br />

gardens, sometimes lithophytic on wet rocks.<br />

Material examined: BASSE TERRE: Sofaïa, Christenhusz<br />

2749 (NY, TUR); Saut d’Eau du Matouba (M. J.<br />

M. Christenhusz, pers. observ.); Cascade aux Écrevisses<br />

(M. J. M. Christenhusz, pers. observ.); Domaine de<br />

© 2009 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2009, 161, 213–277

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