Asplenium falcatum Lam.

Species

Pteridophytes > Polypodiales > Aspleniaceae > Asplenium

Characteristics

Rhizome stout, shortly creeping to ascending, densely clad in slender dark lanceolate-attenuate paleae; stipites crowded. Stipes 15-30 cm. × 3 mm., stiff, densely paleate at base, ± densely paleate elsewhere, becoming glab. Rhachis stout to slender, smooth, paleate when young, with rather distant alt. pinnae. Lamina (15)-20-50-(100) × (5)-15-(20) cm., ± pend., coriac., dark green, lanceolate-attenuate, ± paleate when young; veins conspicuous, simple or forked from about halfway. Pinnae up to 50 or more, ascending, shortly stalked, decreasing towards terminal pinna, (5)-10-(15) cm. × 15-25 mm.; lanceolate, acuminate, inciso-serrate, us. with broadly rounded toothed lobe on upper edge near obliquely cuneate base. Sori us. cop., linear, up to 2 cm. long, often almost reaching margin; indusium firm.
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It is a subtropical plant.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The fronds are eaten fresh and dried as a cooked vegetable.
Uses medicinal
Edible fronds leaves
Therapeutic use Medicine (unspecified)
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Distribution

Asplenium falcatum world distribution map, present in China, Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Myanmar, Mauritius, Malaysia, Mayotte, New Zealand, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Réunion, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, Tanzania, United Republic of, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17043230-1
WFO ID wfo-0001110133
COL ID HKCF
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INPN ID 454349
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Synonyms

Asplenium urophyllum Tarachia falcata Asplenium falcatum