Helminthostachys zeylanica (L.) Hook.
Flowering Fern / Daun seribu guna (Bru.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
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Terrestrial fern that can reach up to 60 cm tall. Leaves are in two rows, fleshy, green or purplish brown and subsessile. Leaflets are triangular while extending down the stem from the tip with a terminal lobe and two pairs of sessile lateral lobes. Leaflet blades are subpalmate, acuminate at apex, cuneate at base with irregular toothed margin and pinnately parallel venation. Stalks are fleshy, glabrous and bearing clusters of sporangia. Rhizomes are thick, short, creeping and can bear either solitary or several
In Peninsular Malaysia, the pounded leaves and fruits are applied to boils and pimples, while the juice of the heated pseudo-bulbs is used for problems with infected ears. Anti- inflammatory, antimicrobial, antinociceptive and antioxidant activities are reported for the
It prefers poor, moist but well- drained soils under direct sunlight. It thrives in grasslands, open lowland forests, on slopes, near to streams and in thickets.
Rhizome planting.
Native to Australia and
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