Dipteris conjugata

What to Eat

Edible parts: Medicine

Where to Find It

It is a tropical plant. It grows between 300-2,900 m above sea level.

Australia, Cambodia, China, Fiji, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Pacific, Papua New Guinea, PNG, Samoa, SE Asia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam,

How to Identify

A fern. The stems are 2-3 m tall. It has an underground stem or rhizome. This has coarse dark bristles.

Medicinal Uses

It has been used as a medicinal plant to treat various ailments, such as in southern Thailand, the roots have been collected for used in traditional medicine. In Fiji, it is used to treat male reproductive ailments. It also has another use, in the highlands of Mindanao in the Philippines, the large fronds are used as an umbrella.

Dipteris conjugata is a species of fern in the family Dipteridaceae. It has a rhizome, and 2-3 tall stems with mid green or dark green fronds, which have several divisions to toothed lobes. It is grows in clearings, mountain ridges and in forest margins, from tropical and temperate Asia, northern Queensland in Australia and some islands in the Pacific Ocean. It has limited native medicinal uses.