Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1077 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in America meridionali."

• Comment: Linnaeus used the specific epithet occidentale for a species of Blechnum collected in China and orientale for a species from the Americas. He later corrected this in Sp. Pl. 2nd edn, 1534-1535 (1763). The transposition is here treated as a correctable typographical error under ICN Art. 60.1 (Melbourne Code, 2012).

Linnaeus, C. (1763), Species Plantarum Edn. 2, 2: 1534-1535 [secondary reference]

Proctor, G.R. in Howard, R.A. (ed.) (1977), Pteridophyta. Flora of the Lesser Antilles: Leeward and Windward Islands 2: 156 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "LINN 1247.1, from 'America meridionale.'"

Chambers, T.C. & Farrant, P.A. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Blechnaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 377, Fig. 124A, Map 341 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Blechnum orientale L. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised)

Gasper, A.L. de, Dittrich, V.A.O., Smith, A.R. & Salino, A. (2016), A classification for Blechnaceae (Polypodiales: Polypodiopsida): New genera, resurrected names, and combinations. Phytotaxa 275(3): 206 [secondary reference]

Field, A.R. (2 January 2020), Classification and typification of Australian lycophytes and ferns based on Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification PPG I. Australian Systematic Botany 33(1): 59 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "America meridionali, s. dat., leg. ign. s.n. (lecto: LINN HI1247.1*,"

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