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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 ...
Polypodiaceae is a family of ferns.In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the family includes around 65 genera and an estimated 1,650 species and is placed in the order Polypodiales, suborder Polypodiineae. [1]
Betel (Piper betle) is a species of flowering plant in the pepper family Piperaceae, native to Southeast Asia.It is an evergreen, dioecious [1] vine, with glossy heart-shaped leaves and white catkins.
Helminthostachys zeylanica is a terrestrial, herbaceous fern of southeastern Asia and Australia, commonly known as kamraj and tunjuk-langit.The species is like the other members of its family, it has clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile, spike-like fronds.
The Polypodiidae, commonly called leptosporangiate ferns, formerly Leptosporangiatae, are one of four subclasses of ferns, the largest of these being the largest group of living ferns, including some 11,000 species worldwide.
Pteris vittata is native and widespread in the paleotropics: found from the east, to the south tropical, and southern Africa (in Angola; Kenya; Lesotho; Malawi; Mozambique; Namibia; Tanzania (including the Zanzibar Archipelago); Cape Province, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, and Transvaal in South Africa; Eswatini; Uganda; Zambia; and Zimbabwe); temperate and tropical Asia (in the provinces of ...
Dicksoniaceae is a group of tropical, subtropical and warm temperate ferns, treated as a family in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), [1] and counting 30-40 species. [2]
Lygodium microphyllum causes problems in the environments where it is invasive.The plant damages wetland ecosystems, harming endangered species. [10] The ferns ability to grow up and over trees and shrubs and to form dense horizontal canopies allows it to cover whole communities of plants, reducing native plant diversity.