Botany
Stoloniferous fern with short erect rhizomes. Leaves are up to 90 cm long, leathery, arching, green to yellow green with the leaflets are forked at the end.

Distribution
Widely cultivated in Philippine gardens.

Parts utilized
Leaves, roots.

Uses
Nutrition
Edible: Leaves are boiled and eaten as vegetable.
In New Guinea, roots are pounded to flour. source
Folkloric
No recorded folkloric use in the Philippines.
In Tahiti, used for blisters, boils, abscesses and sores. source
In Cameroon, decoction of fronds used for lower abdominal pains. source
In NW Guyana, leaves used for treatment of wounds and cuts. source


Availability
Garden cultivation.