| SNo. | Scientific Name | Locality | Habitat | Basis of Record | Description | Recorded By | Record Number | Island | Source | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Kahaluu-Ahuimanu Dividing ridge | Along ridge crest trail about 50 feet above a dilapidated hogwire fence. The surrounding vegetation- Sphenomeris chinensis, Wikstroemia oahuensis, Rhodomyrtus tomentosa and Psidium cattleianum. | Preserved_Specimen | Fern, about 1 m tall | Kawelo, K. | 104 | Oahu | BISH | 2009-01-01 |
| 2 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Helemano, Northern Koolau Mountains. | One plant growing on sub ridge near Poamoho trail near a fence line in thick Dicranopteris linearis colony. Also growing with Kadua affins, Metrosideros polymorpha, Antidesma platyphyllum, Miconia crenata, and others. | Preserved_Specimen | Fronds huge, up to 5 ft high. New growth bright red fading to green. Pinnae reduced to small tags at base. Sori linear along the costae. | Thomas, M.K. | 303 | Oahu | BISH | 2022-03-30 |
| 3 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Ahuimanu, on driveway at 47-722 Ahuimanu Rd. | Growing on very steep bank above a driveway. Yard borders on ohia/hala forest on ridge behind house. Also with palaa. Does not seem planted. | Preserved_Specimen | Upright fern, growing from one point; fronds 1-1.5 m long. Spores linear along pinnae vein. Four plants seen, all mature. | Beachy, J. | 144 | Oahu | BISH | 2009-03-20 |
| 4 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Manana Trail, near the Boy Scout Shelter, central Koolau Mountains | Mesic to wet forest. Associated Vegetation: Canopy: Melaleuca quiquenervia. Understory: Pterolepsis glomerata, Melaleuca quinquenervia. | Preserved_Specimen | Large fern, 1-1.5 m tall. Leaves: Pinnate, entire margins, apex acute, dark green above, pale green below. At least five plants seen. | Pender, R. | Oahu | BISH | 2014-03-06 | |
| 5 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Koolau Mts., Kahuku Training Area. | Found on red dirt slope above road. Was relatively isolated. | Preserved_Specimen | New growth was very red. | Kong, K. | 548 | Oahu | BISH | 2021-02-02 |
| 6 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Waianae Mts., Kaala Road | Growing in disturbed clay bank vegetation roadside. Associated vegetation: Eucalyptus sp., Casuarina glauca, Dodonaea viscosa. | Preserved_Specimen | Ca. 30 cm tall when collected on 9 Jan 2019. Specimen was transferred to the Army nursery until linear sori along pinnae midveins were observed and positive determination could be made. | Russell III, W.T. | 503 | Oahu | BISH | 2019-05-14 |
| 7 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Koolau Mts., Manana Trail, 25 minutes in from end of jeep road on right side. | Growing in low strawberry guava thicket. | Preserved_Specimen | Harada, S. | Oahu | BISH | 2019-10-02 | ||
| 8 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Koolau Mts., Kahuku Training Area. | Found on red dirt slope above road. Was relatively isolated. | Preserved_Specimen | New growth was very red. | Kong, K. | 548 | Oahu | BISH | 2021-02-02 |
| 9 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Koolau Mts., Schofield-Waikane Trail. | Associated vegetation: Canopy: Psidium cattleyanum, Musa sp., Heliocarpus popayanensis, Acacia koa, Antidesma platyphyllum, Metrosideros polymorpha. Understory: Dicranopteris linearis, Nephrolepis exaltata, Citharexylum caudatum, Clidemia hirta, Angiopteris evecta. | Preserved_Specimen | Rosetted fern with cycad-like gestalt, not much of a trunk, fronds 1-pinnate, up to 9 ft long. Sori in parallel lines. Naturalizing, 80-100 plants noted, many emergent from intact beds of uluhe. Appears able to colonize intact native forest, and may already have infested much of the region. Full extent of infestation not scoped out, but possible patch noted far mauka on a cliff. | Heintzman, S. | 468 | Oahu | BISH | 2017-12-01 |
| 10 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Koolau Mts., Schofield-Waikane Trail. | Associated vegetation: Canopy: Psidium cattleyanum, Musa sp., Heliocarpus popayanensis, Acacia koa, Antidesma platyphyllum, Metrosideros polymorpha. Understory: Dicranopteris linearis, Nephrolepis exaltata, Citharexylum caudatum, Clidemia hirta, Angiopteris evecta. | Preserved_Specimen | Rosetted fern with cycad-like gestalt, not much of a trunk, fronds 1-pinnate, up to 9 ft long. Sori in parallel lines. Naturalizing, 80-100 plants noted, many emergent from intact beds of uluhe. Appears able to colonize intact native forest, and may already have infested much of the region. Full extent of infestation not scoped out, but possible patch noted far mauka on a cliff. | Heintzman, S. | 468 | Oahu | BISH | 2017-12-01 |
| 11 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Manoa falls trail, ~ 150 m ma kai of the falls. | Wet partial shade, on steep rocky hillside covered in mosses / liverworts. Associated; Dicranopteris linearis, Blechnum appendiculatum, Albizia sp., Citharexylum caudatum, lycopodium sp.. | Preserved_Specimen | Leaves glossy with pale undersides. | Arthur, K. | 87 | Oahu | BISH | 2025-03-03 |
| 12 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Oahu Forest NWR, Koa ridge, above Mililani Mauka. | Site of October 30, 2023 fire. In gluch base, edge of burned area, partial sun, moist, formerly dominated by uluhe. Associated Miconia crenata, Trema orientale, Falcataria falcata, Livsonia chinensis, Acacia koa, Pterolepis glomerata, Citherxylum caudatum, Ardesia elliptica, Solanum mauritianum, Cecropia obtusifolia, Rubus rosifolius, Heliocarpus americanus, Andropogon virginicus, Psidium catleyanum (with tectococuss), Nephrolepis brownii | Preserved_Specimen | 1 plant to 2 m tall with keiki 15 to 20 underneath | Arthur, K. | 42 | Oahu | BISH | 2025-02-10 |
| 13 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Aiea ridge trail. Central Koolau mountains. | Growing on erosion scar along trail mixed with emergent Dicranopteris, Odontosoria, Vaccinium, Polygala, Metrosideros and others. Also growing with Sadleria pallida, Diplopterygium pinnatum, Metrosideros polymorpha, Gahnia beecheyi, and Miconia crenata. | Preserved_Specimen | Thomas, M.K. | 290 | Oahu | BISH | 2022-03-19 | |
| 14 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Old Peahinaia Trail, Opaeula, Oahu | Native wet forest Metrosideros polymorpha, Acacia koa, Antidesma platyphyllum, Pritchardia martii, Dicranopteris linearis, Sadleria pallida, Machaerina angustifolia | Preserved_Specimen | very large, vigorous plant >6' tall growing out of native dominated uluhe slope. Only one individual seen. | Ching-Harbin, S. | 202109141 | Oahu | BISH | 2021-09-14 |
| 15 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Koolau Mts., Schofield-Waikane Trail. | Associated vegetation: Canopy: Psidium cattleyanum, Musa sp., Heliocarpus popayanensis, Acacia koa, Antidesma platyphyllum, Metrosideros polymorpha. Understory: Dicranopteris linearis, Nephrolepis exaltata, Citharexylum caudatum, Clidemia hirta, Angiopteris evecta. | Preserved_Specimen | Rosetted fern with cycad-like gestalt, not much of a trunk, fronds 1-pinnate, up to 9 ft long. Sori in parallel lines. Naturalizing, 80-100 plants noted, many emergent from intact beds of uluhe. Appears able to colonize intact native forest, and may already have infested much of the region. Full extent of infestation not scoped out, but possible patch noted far mauka on a cliff. | Heintzman, S. | 468 | Oahu | BISH | 2017-12-01 |
| 16 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Koolau Mts., Kahuku Training Area. | Found on red dirt slope above road. Was relatively isolated. | Preserved_Specimen | New growth was very red. | Kong, K. | 548 | Oahu | BISH | 2021-02-02 |
| 17 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Kauakaulani. Ahupuaa of Moanalua. | Growing in understory of Psidium cattleianum dominated forest with some Metrosideros polymorpha, Diospyros sandwicensis, Carex wahuensis, Odontosoria chinensis, and Nephrolepis exaltata. Growing in small open patches of forest on side of ridge as well. | Preserved_Specimen | Plants up to 1 m tall with short trunks. Blades ovate-lanceolate with linear pinnae abruptly reducing to very small nubbins at base of frond. Young fronds with red coloration, typical of the Blechnaceae family. Young plants also seen. | Thomas, M.K. | 201 | Oahu | BISH | 2021-12-10 |
| 18 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Souther Koolau Mts, Mauumae Ridge, 2 m off trail into Palolo Valley | Wet mesic windswept hillside on west slope of ridge in full sun. In Dicranopteris-Metrosideros-Acacia forest. Associates; paspallum sp., Dicranopteris linearis, Acacia koa, Metrosideros polymorpha, Miconia crenata, Syzygium sandwicensis, Freycintetia arborea | Preserved_Specimen | New growth flushing pink. | K. Arthur | 190 | oahu | BISH | 2025-10-17 |
| 19 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Poamoho. Northern Koolau Mountains. | Many plants popping up within erosion that opened up months before. Also growing with Sadleria spp., Odontosoria chinensis, Scaevola mollis, Macherina angustifolia, Cibotium spp., Miconia crenata, other Melastomes and many grasses. Surrounding forest dominated by Metrosideros polymorpha, Acacia Koa, and Dicranopteris linearis. | Preserved_Specimen | Small fern, immature but fertile. Older, larger specimens down the gully, some reaching 2 m tall. Fronds pinnate, young foliage red turning green. Sori linear along costae. Stem erect and almost trunk like. Pinnae abruptly reducing on lower portion of frond. | Thomas, M.K. | 589 | Oahu | BISH | 2023-07-05 |
| 20 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Koolaupoko, Waiahole, Waiahole Forest Reserve, along old access road | Growing in highly disturbed wet roadside. Associates; Odontosoria chinesis, Ardisia elliptica, Pandanus tectorius, Citharexylum caudatum, Christella parasitica, Schefflera. | Preserved_Specimen | Fronds up to 2.5 m long. | k. Arthur | 239 | Oahu | BISH | 2026-01-07 |
| 21 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Old Peahinaia Trail, Opaeula, Oahu. | Native wet forest Metrosideros polymorpha, Acaia koa, Antidesma platy phyllum, Pritchardia martii, dicranopteris linearis, Sadleria pallida. | Preserved_Specimen | Machaerina angustifolia very large, vigorous plant >6' tall growing out of native dominated uluhe slop slope. Only one individual seen. Incipient in this area and establishing vigorously in undisturbed native vegetation along Schofield Waikane Trail. | Ching-Harbin, S. | 2021091401 | Oahu | BISH | 2021-09-14 |
| 22 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Waianae Mts., Kaluaa Gulch, Honouliuli Forest Reserve. | Slope above main south central Kaluaa Gulch. | Preserved_Specimen | Two large individuals observed, collected only one frond for submission | Kawelo, K. | 541 | Oahu | BISH | 2020-09-01 |
| 23 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Ahuimanu, on driveway at 47-722 Ahuimanu Rd. | Growing on very steep bank above a driveway. Yard borders on ohia/hala forest on ridge behind house. Also with palaa. Does not seem planted. | Preserved_Specimen | Upright fern, growing from one point; fronds 1-1.5 m long. Spores linear along pinnae vein. Four plants seen, all mature. | Beachy, J. | 144 | Oahu | BISH | 2009-03-20 |
| 24 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Koolau Summit near junction with Malaekahana trail. UTM 607250, 2389387 | Native dominated forest, growing among Metrosideros polymorpha, Bobea eliatot, Dicranopteris linearis. | Preserved_Specimen | Terrestrial fern. | Kawelo, K. | 354 | Oahu | BISH | 2014-02-21 |
| 25 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Koolau Mts., Schofield-Waikane Trail. | Associated vegetation: Canopy: Psidium cattleyanum, Musa sp., Heliocarpus popayanensis, Acacia koa, Antidesma platyphyllum, Metrosideros polymorpha. Understory: Dicranopteris linearis, Nephrolepis exaltata, Citharexylum caudatum, Clidemia hirta, Angiopteris evecta. | Preserved_Specimen | Rosetted fern with cycad-like gestalt, not much of a trunk, fronds 1-pinnate, up to 9 ft long. Sori in parallel lines. Naturalizing, 80-100 plants noted, many emergent from intact beds of uluhe. Appears able to colonize intact native forest, and may already have infested much of the region. Full extent of infestation not scoped out, but possible patch noted far mauka on a cliff. | Heintzman, S. | 468 | Oahu | BISH | 2017-12-01 |
| 26 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Manana Trail, near the Boy Scout Shelter, central Koolau Mountains | Mesic to wet forest. Associated Vegetation: Canopy: Melaleuca quiquenervia. Understory: Pterolepsis glomerata, Melaleuca quinquenervia. | Preserved_Specimen | Large fern, 1-1.5 m tall. Leaves: Pinnate, entire margins, apex acute, dark green above, pale green below. At least five plants seen. | Pender, R. | Oahu | BISH | 2014-03-06 | |
| 27 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Old Peahinaia Trail, Opaeula | Native wet forest Metrosideros polymorpha, Acacia koa, Antidesma platyphyllum, Pritchardia martii, Dicranopteris linearis, Sadleria pallida, Machaerina angustifolia | Preserved_Specimen | very large, vigorous plant greater than 6 feet tall growing out of native dominated uluhe slope, only one individual seen. | Ching-Harbin, S. | 2021091401 | Oahu | BISH | 2021-09-14 |
| 28 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Palikea in restoration area | On talus slope growing with Pseudophegopteris keraudreniana, Sadleria cyatheoides, Kadua affinis, Urera glabra, Urera kaalae, Pogonatum tahitense, Miconia crenata, Rubus rosifolius, and others. | Preserved_Specimen | Thomas, M.K. | 99 | Oahu | BISH | 2021-08-11 | |
| 29 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Waianae Mts., Kaluaa Gulch, Honouliuli Forest Reserve. | Slope above main south central Kaluaa Gulch. | Preserved_Specimen | Two large individuals observed, collected only one frond for submission | Kawelo, K. | 541 | Oahu | BISH | 2020-09-01 |
| 30 | Blechnopsis orientalis | Koolau Mts., Schofield-Waikane Trail. | Associated vegetation: Canopy: Psidium cattleyanum, Musa sp., Heliocarpus popayanensis, Acacia koa, Antidesma platyphyllum, Metrosideros polymorpha. Understory: Dicranopteris linearis, Nephrolepis exaltata, Citharexylum caudatum, Clidemia hirta, Angiopteris evecta. | Preserved_Specimen | Rosetted fern with cycad-like gestalt, not much of a trunk, fronds 1-pinnate, up to 9 ft long. Sori in parallel lines. Naturalizing, 80-100 plants noted, many emergent from intact beds of uluhe. Appears able to colonize intact native forest, and may already have infested much of the region. Full extent of infestation not scoped out, but possible patch noted far mauka on a cliff. | Heintzman, S. | 468 | Oahu | BISH | 2017-12-01 |
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