Neoblechnum Gasper & V.A.O.Dittrich

Dittrich, Vinícius Antonio De Oliveira, Salino, Alexandre, Monteiro, Reinaldo & Gasper, André Luís De, 2017, The family Blechnaceae (Polypodiopsida) in Brazil: key to the genera and taxonomic treatment of Austroblechnum, Cranfillia, Lomaridium, Neoblechnum and Telmatoblechnum for southern and southeastern Brazil, Phytotaxa 303 (1), pp. 1-33 : 21

4. Neoblechnum Gasper & V.A.O.Dittrich in Gasper et al. (2016a: 214)

Type: Neoblechnum brasiliense (Desv.) Gasper & V.A.O.Dittrich in Gasper et al., Phytotaxa 275(3): 214.

Plants terrestrial; rhizomes erect, stout, trunk-like, non-stoloniferous, clothed by black, glossy, acicular, curved, entire scales; fronds monomorphic; stipes stout, short, brown to blackish, proximally with scales smaller but otherwise similar to those on the rhizomes, glabrous or glabrescent distally; blades concolorous, oblong-lanceolate, pinnate to pinnatisect, gradually reduced at base, without vestigial pinnae, apices pinnatifid; rachises glabrous or with tiny capitate hairs; buds absent; aerophores absent; pinnae adnate to rachis, decurrent, linear to linear-lanceolate, margins serrulate; veins free, once forked, each ending at pinna margins; sori linear, indusia entire to subentire; x = 66.