Ceratopteris thalictroides (L.) Brongn.

Taxonomy: Pteridaceae

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Polypodiopsida > Polypodiales > Pteridaceae > Ceratopteris > C. thalictroides

Common name [English]: Indian Fern, Water Hornfern, Oriental Waterfern

Vernacular name [Malayalam]:

Nativity: Tropics & Subtropics

Habitat: Growing in wet areas such as ponds, paddy fields, canals and coastal plains to high altitude areas.

Description: Aquatic or semi aquatic herbs with erect rhizome, with thick long, fibrous, fleshy roots. Scales pale brown, membranous, ovate or elliptic, acute, entire. Fronds dimorphic; stipe 15-20 cm long; sterile lamina simply pinnate; pinnae ovate or deltoid in outline, variously lobed, coriaceous, fleshy, glabrous, veins anastomosing, indistinct; fertile lamina simply pinnate, pinnae tripinnatifid, lobes linear, fleshy. Sporangial capsule sessile. Spores trilete with thickly folded ridges.

Flowering and Fruiting: All round year

Uses: Folk medicine, Traditional Chinese medicine

Cultivation: Common in plains.

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org