Tectaria zeilanica
(Houtt.) Sledge
Flowering fern, Seven finger fern
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Description
A erect fern with short creeping underground stout rhizomes. The plant is up to 60 cm high. They bear solitary or sometimes several fronds. The stalk of the leaf frond is up to 25-35 cm long and 12-20 cm wide. At the tip it has 3 segments of the sterile frond. The fertile part is like a spike and comes from the stalk. The spores are yellow in brown spore bodies which are 0.8 mm across.
Edible Uses
The young fronds are eaten raw as a salad or cooked as a vegetable.
Traditional Uses
The young fronds of this fern are eaten raw as a salad or cooked as a vegetable.
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Distribution
A tropical fern. They grow in shady sites in the forest. They are found throughout the Philippines in open bushy places near sea level and on damp ground.
Where It Grows
Asia, Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, China, East Timor, Himalayas, India, Indochina, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, Northeastern India, Pacific, Papua New Guinea, PNG, Philippines, SE Asia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam,
Cultivation
Plants are grown by splitting the rhizomes.
Notes
There is only one Helminthostachys species. It is used in medicine in Bangladesh. Now Tectaria. Also put in the family Dryopteridaceae.
Synonyms
Also Known As
Dhagrajawa, Kamraj, Mayur kutea, Tukod, Tukod-langit
References (25)
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