Common name: slender brake
Family: Pteridaceae
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Country of Origin: China, Indomalaysia, Queesnland Australia
Description:
Uses: Edible: The sweetish tasting young fronds are eaten steamed, used as flavoring and is an ingredient in most traditional Taiwanese beverages.
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Medicinal: Used in many ways in traditional folk medicine this plant has been shown to have antipyretic, antirheumatic, antidysenteric attributes.
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USDA Zone: 8b-11
Source: unknown
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Classification:
- Division: Ferns
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- SubClass: Polypodiidae
- Order: Polypodiales
- SubOrder: Pteridinae
- Family: Pteridaceae
- SubFamily: Pteridoideae
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References:
- The Plant List(2013). Last accessed Sunday, 3 February, 2019.
- Pakong-parang at Phillipine Medicinal Plants. Last accessed Sunday, 3 February, 2019.
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