- 🌿 Botanical Name
- Drynaria quercifolia
- 👨👩👦 Family
- Polypodiaceae.
- 🗣️ Vernacular Names
- Oak leaf fern, Kireedapannal.
- 🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
- NA.
- 🌍 Distribution
- Indochina, Malaysia and Australia.
- 💡 Status
- Not Evaluated.
Description: Epiphytic fern, with thick and fleshy rhizome covered with woolly scales. Fronds of 2 distinct types, nest and foliage fronds. Nest fronds sessile, long-persisting, dry, protective. Foliage fronds stalked, fertile, lobed, deciduous, drooping, bear sori when mature.
Uses: Rhizome is medicinal.