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Acrostichum aureum Linnaeu
Erect fern, attaining upto 1.5 m high, having samll bushy appearance Fibrous typical fern like roots but without any aerial roots Rhizome globose, horizontal, caudex, circinate venation, young rachis covered by gregarious hair like structures known as ramenta Frond simple, semipinnatifid, upto 1 m long, and 4.0 cm wide, isobilateral, distinct mid-vein and reticulate vein, entire, blunt end, green and yellow on maturity with sorus, glabrous, coriaceous, unicostate reticulate venation. Mature leaves or fronds become sporophyllous, diffuse spoprangia at abaxial surface, mixed sporangia on both side of the mid-vein, brown sporangia stalked, upper globose Tender fronds/leaves are ediblee as vegetable
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