Cyclosorus gongylodes
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Limba
(c) Carrie Tribble, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
(c) Carrie Tribble, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
(c) Carrie Tribble, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
What to Eat
Edible parts: Leaves, Fronds, Roots, Vegetable
The leaves and fronds are eaten as a vegetable. The roots are also edible.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows in wasteland in the lowlands of East and West Africa. It grows in swampy, poorly drained soil. It grows in freshwater swamps. It is damaged by frost or drought.
Africa, Asia, Australia, Central Africa, Chuuk, East Africa, FSM, Gabon, Gambia, Madagascar, Pacific, Senegal, West Africa,
How to Identify
A fern. It has fronds with leaflets along the stalk. These are twice divided. It grows 1.2 m high and spreads 1 m wide. The rhizome is creeping. The leaflets are oval or triangle shaped.
How to Grow
Plants can be grown from spores or by division.
Medicinal Uses
C. interruptus is used in herbal medicine for sores, liver diseases, gonorrhea, cough, and malaria.
References (7)
- Andrews, S.B., 1990, Ferns of Queensland. A handbook to the ferns and fern allies. Queensland DPI p 359 (Now Cyclorus interruptus)
- Bodkin, F., 1991, Encyclopedia Botanica. Cornstalk publishing, p 312
- Burkill, H. M., 1985, The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5. Kew.
- Cribb, A.B. & J.W., 1976, Wild Food in Australia, Fontana. p 160
- Grubben, G. J. H. and Denton, O. A. (eds), 2004, Plant Resources of Tropical Africa 2. Vegetables. PROTA, Wageningen, Netherlands. p 561
- Maroyi, A., 2014, Not just minor wild edible forest products: consumption of pteridophytes in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 10:78
- Pham-Hoang Ho, 1999, An Illustrated Flora of Vietnam. Nha Xuat Ban Tre. p 131 ?
