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The young fronds are stir-fried and used in salads. [6] [7]They may have mild amounts of fern toxins but no major toxic effects are recorded. [8]It is known as pakô ("wing") in the Philippines, [6] pucuk paku and paku tanjung in Malaysia, sayur paku or pakis in Indonesia, phak koot (Thai: ผักกูด) in Thailand, rau dớn in Vietnam, dhekia (Assamese: ঢেকীয়া) in Assam ...
Arthropods (/ ˈɑːrθrəpɒd / ARTH-rə-pod) [22] are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda. They possess an exoskeleton with a cuticle made of chitin, often mineralised with calcium carbonate, a body with differentiated (metameric) segments, and paired jointed appendages. In order to keep growing, they must go through stages of moulting, a ...
Pteris biaurita, the thinleaf brake, is a fern species in the genus Pteris.It is widely distributed around the world, including Africa, the Americas, and Asia. The plants are 70–110 cm in height, with erect, woody rhizomes 2–2.5 cm in diameter, and the apex densely covered with brown scales.
P. longifolia Wall. Pteris vittata, the Chinese brake, [4] Chinese ladder brake, [4] or simply ladder brake, [4] is a fern species in the Pteridoideae subfamily of the Pteridaceae. [5] It is indigenous to Asia, southern Europe, tropical Africa, and Australia. [4] The type specimen was collected in China by Pehr Osbeck.
Rumohra adiantiformis is native to South America, the Caribbean, southern Africa, the Western Indian Ocean islands, Papua New Guinea, and Australasia. [2] Countries it is native to include such diverse places as Brazil and Colombia, [8] the Galápagos Islands, [9] the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean, Zimbabwe and South Africa [2] Australia, and New Zealand.
The ferns (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta) are a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They differ from mosses by being vascular, i.e., having specialized tissues that conduct water and nutrients, and in having life cycles in which the branched sporophyte is the ...
D. trichomanoides. Binomial name. Davallia trichomanoides. Blume. Davallia trichomanoides, also known as black rabbit's foot fern and squirrel foot fern, is a fern in the family Davalliaceae which is found in tropical Asia. Its height is from 15 to 45 cm. Partial or full shade is required for the growth of it. It can survive in dryness.
A. aureum. Binomial name. Acrostichum aureum. L. Sporophylls. Acrostichum aureum, the golden leather fern, is a large species of fern that grows in mangrove swamps and other wet locations. Other common names include swamp fern and mangrove fern.