Botany:
A scrambling fern, the primary petioles are short; the secondary ones are 2 to 5 cms long. The pinnae are stalked, the sterile ones palmately lobed or dichotomous with the lobed leaflets, the lobes lanceolate, 10-30 cm long, 1 to 4.5 cm wide; the fertile one are once or twice dichotomous with linear lobes, 1 to 10 cm wide. Spikes are arranged along the margin, 2 to 10 mm long. Spores are verruculose.

Distribution
Found In open places and forests, at low and medium altitudes.

Parts utilized
Roots and leaves.

Uses
Folkloric
Stipes is chewed and applied to bites of venomous reptiles and insects to neutralize the poison.
Roots and leaves are applied to wounds.
Used as a substitute for Helmintostachys zeylanica after childbirth.
Temuan tribe of Malaysia use the exudate from the rhizome as insect repellent and to treat aquatic animal bites and snake bites.
Others
• Binding / Basket ware: All species of the genus Lygodium have elongated climibing rachis reaching lengths of several meters. Of the lygodium species, L. circinnatum is the most common and widely used. Also used for tying floats to outriggers and other lashing uses on canoes. Also used in making finely woven basket ware.

Availability
Wild-crafted. 

Additional Sources and Suggested Readings
(1)
The Use of Medicinal Plant Species by the Temuan Tribe of Ayer Hitam Forest, Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia / I. Faridah Hanum and Nurulhuda Hamzah / PertanikaJ. Trap. Agric. Sci. 22(2): 85 - 94 (1999)
(2)
Ferns and Man in New Guinea / Jim Croft / Australian National Botanic Garden / based on a paper presented to Papua New Guinea Botany Society, 1982