✿Athyriaceae · Diplazium
Vegetable Fern
Diplazium esculentum
Herb-Terrestrialoutdoor
- Habit
- Herb-Terrestrial
- Found in India
- Assam, Uttarakhand, West Bengal & more
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Diplazium esculentum
- Genus
- Diplazium
- Family
- Athyriaceae
- Habit
- Herb-Terrestrial
- Habitat
- In open marshy places along streams and river banks
- Habitat type
- Wetland
- Native to
- Asia
- Distribution
- India, China, Formosa, Malaysia east to Philippines, New Guinea, Samoa
- Found in India
- Assam, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Jammu & Kashmir, Meghalaya, Sikkim
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Bipinnately compoundrecordedThe leaf is divided twice — each 'leaflet' is itself a row of smaller leaflets, giving a fine, fern-like look.“The plant is bipinnate with long brownish petioles, and the petiole base is black and covered with short scales.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Characters marked “recorded” are for Vegetable Fern itself; the rest are typical of the Athyriaceae family.
About Vegetable Fern
Vegetable Fern (Diplazium esculentum) is a ground herb in the Athyriaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Assam, Uttarakhand, West Bengal and 6 other states. It grows in in open marshy places along streams and river banks.
Botanical family
Athyriaceae
Lady Fern Family
Vegetable Fern belongs to the Athyriaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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