| Swamp water fern | |
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| Growing near Botany Bay, Australia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Division: | Polypodiophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Polypodiales |
| Suborder: | Aspleniineae |
| Family: | Blechnaceae |
| Genus: | Telmatoblechnum |
| Species: | T. indicum |
| Binomial name | |
| Telmatoblechnum indicum (Burm.f.) Perrie, D.J.Ohlsen & Brownsey | |
| Synonyms | |
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Telmatoblechnum indicum (many synonyms including Blechnum indicum) or the swamp water fern is often seen growing on sandy soils in swampy areas. The specific epithet indicum is from Latin, revealing this plant was first collected in the East Indies (Java). Indigenous Australians used the starchy rhizome as food.
This plant was collected with another swamp fern Cyclosorus interruptus by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander at Botany Bay in 1770.
References
- ^ Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (November 2019). "Telmatoblechnum indicum". Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. 8.11. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
- Les Robinson - Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney, ISBN 978-0-7318-1211-0 page 307
- "Doug Benson and Georgina Eldershaw. Backdrop to encounter: the 1770 landscape of Botany Bay,the plants collected by Banks and Solander and rehabilitation of natural vegetation at Kurnell" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-06-23. Retrieved 2011-06-20.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Telmatoblechnum indicum | |
| Blechnum indicum | |
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