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  1. Blechnum on Routeburn Track

  2. 25/04/2014 10:33:07 a.m. Philip Smith

    Whilst walking the Routeburn, these beautiful banks of Blechnum were putting out new leaves. I assumed that they may have been a particularly red form of B. procerum at the time, but wasn't competely sure. In this location and based on their appearance, is it likely to be B. procerum or B. montanum ?

  3. 25/04/2014 3:16:16 p.m. Mike Thorsen

    Hi Philip, it looks like B. montanum to me. B procerum usually occurs as scattered clumps and has smaller fronds with a blunter tip to the leaflets. B. montanum can form extensive patches in damper areas of the SI mountains

  4. 25/04/2014 8:40:56 p.m. Philip Smith

    Thanks Mike, I've been thinking that's the case. It was viewing various images of leaves of B. montanum (which have more of the appearance of B. novae-zelandiae) that had thrown me.

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