Dryopteris japonica

Dryopteris japonica

(records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

[synonym] sun can't die (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List), mulianjin (Zhejiang Tianmu medicinal plant record).

[source] it is the whole plant of Dryopteris japonica.

[plant morphology] Dryopteris japonica

Perennial epiphytic or lithophytic herbs. Rhizome short and transverse, densely covered with scales; scales narrowly lanceolate, dark brown; fibrous roots fine and dense. Leaves tufted, sessile or almost sessile; leaf blade linear, 30-40 cm long, 3-8 mm wide, apex acuminate, base narrower, entire, leathery, midrib concave above leaves, slightly raised below, leaf margin slightly retrorse. The sporangia are linear, deeply embedded in the mesophyll, growing along the groove in the edge of the leaf, and protruding along the inner edge of the groove. There are septal filaments in the ascospore group.

In the shade, on rocks or on epiphytic trees. It is distributed in East China, South China and southwest China.

[functions and indications] 1. Records of Zhejiang Tianmu yam plant: "for children with acute convulsion, take the whole herb to three Liang, add brown sugar, fry in water, and take it on an empty stomach. To cure women's dry blood tuberculosis, and to remove the eye Yi, the whole grass decoction. "

② "The list of medicinal plants in Guangxi": "continued bones and muscles. "