Brainea

Brainea is a genus of ferns in the family Blechnaceae, subfamily Blechnoideae, with a single species Brainea insignis, according to the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).^[1] The genus is accepted in a 2016 classification of the family Blechnaceae,^[2] but other sources sink it into a very broadly defined Blechnum, equivalent to the whole of the PPG I subfamily.^[3]

Brainea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Polypodiales
Suborder:	Aspleniineae
Family:	Blechnaceae
Genus:	Brainea J.Sm.[1]
Species:	B. insignis
Binomial name
Brainea insignis (Hook.) J.Sm.[1]