| Brainea | |
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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] | |
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]
