✿Pteridaceae · Ceratopteris
Water Fern
Ceratopteris thalictroides
Herb-AquaticMedicinal
- Habit
- Herb-Aquatic
- Found in India
- Kerala, Assam, Uttarakhand & more
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Ceratopteris thalictroides
- Genus
- Ceratopteris
- Family
- Pteridaceae
- Habit
- Herb-Aquatic
- Distribution
- Tropical Asia, Central America, Tropical Africa
- Found in India
- Kerala, Assam, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Punjab, Tamil Nadu
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Finely doubly-divided (bipinnate, lacy)recorded
- Leaf surface
- Plain green undersiderecorded
Characters marked “recorded” are for Water Fern itself; the rest are typical of the Pteridaceae family.
Local Names
- Bengali
- ক্ষুদে ঢেকিশাক, পানিশাক
About Water Fern
Water Fern (Ceratopteris thalictroides) is a species in the Pteridaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Kerala, Assam, Uttarakhand and 9 other states.
Uses
In practice it is grown for parts that are eaten, long used in traditional medicine and used to hold soil and restore degraded ground. Those medicinal uses are traditional attributions, not medical advice.
Botanical family
Pteridaceae
Maidenhair Fern Family
Water Fern belongs to the Pteridaceae family.
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