Nephrolepis biserrata (Sw.) Schott
Null / Mengkubuk (Br.), Sayur serubok (Tut.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
Propagation
Distribution
Precaution
Terrestrial or epiphytic tufted fern that is able to grow up to 90 cm tall. This plant varies in frond sizes and shapes. Leaves are pinnately compound, slightly drooping and glabrous. Leaflets are oppositely arranged and shortly petiolate. Leaflet blades are narrowly elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, acute at apex, oblique and broadly cuneate at base with toothed margin. Stalks are light brown, shiny and glabrous with age. Stems are scaly, uniformly coloured and sub-erect. Tubers are absent. Rhizomes are erect and short. Sori are rounded and arranged in 2 rows near the margin of the leaflets.
In other countries, the orchid is eaten as a vegetable, to treat blood stasis, food poisoning and for rheumatism. Antioxidant, antiviral, cytotoxic and antitumorous properties are
It is often found in ponds, ditches, and canals. It prefers clear, warm, still and slightly acidic water under full sun position. If the soil is too rich, or the water too deep, then flowering can be inhibited.
Stolon division and spores.
Distributed throughout the tropics.
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