Common Names: Vegetable fern (En); fougère végétale (Fr); kuwareshida (Jp); fern vegetal (Sp); 過溝菜蕨, 過貓 (Cn)
Plant Distribution: East, Southeast and South Asia, Oceania
Edible Parts: Tender fronds are blanched, boiled, or stir-fried.
This plant is a large perennial fern with ascending rhizome of about 20 cm high and covered with short rufous scales of about 1 cm long. The plant is bipinnate with long brownish petioles, and the petiole base is black and covered with short scales. The frond can reach 1.5 cm in length, and the pinnae is about 8 cm long and 2 cm wide.