Drynaria Rhizome

Drynaria fortunei

Summary:

Drynaria fortunei plant is an epiphytic herb, 20 to 40cm high. Fleshy, stout, and long rhizome grows horizontally and is covered densely with brown, linear chisel-shaped scales. Leaves come with two shapes. Foliage leaf is thick and leathery, reddish-brown or grayish brown, ovate, sessile, 5 to 6.5 cm long and 4 to 5.5 cm wide, and with pinnate lobed edges that looks like oak leaves. Sporophyll is green and with a short winged handle. Blade is oblong or oblong, 20 to 37cm long, 8 to 18.5cm wide, and pinnatipartite. 6 to 15 pairs of accessory pinna are broadly lanceolate or oblong, 4 ~ 10 cm long, and 1.5 to 2.5cm wide. Sori are round, brown, arranged with 2 to 4 lines on both sides of the middle vein. Each rectangular mesh harbors one 1 without indusia.(Chinese Herb Healing)

 

Botanical name:

Drynaria fortunei rhizome

Origin:

Brazil

Drynaria baronii , Drynaria fortune, Drynaria propinqua, Drynaria Rhizome, Drynaria roosii, Gu Sui Bu, Polypodiaceae, Pseudodrynaria coronans, Rhizoma Drynariae.

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