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Fishbone water fern | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Division: | Polypodiophyta |
Class: | Polypodiopsida |
Order: | Polypodiales |
Suborder: | Aspleniineae |
Family: | Blechnaceae |
Genus: | Lomaria |
Species: | L. nuda
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Binomial name | |
Lomaria nuda (Labill.) Willd.
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Lomaria nuda, commonly known as the fishbone waterfern, is a fern that grows up to a metre tall, and is abundant in rainforest and eucalyptus forests in eastern Australia. The species is placed in the genus Lomaria in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I),[2] but is often retained in genus Blechnum as Blechnum nudum.[3]