Dicranopteris linearis (Burm.f.) Underw. (= Gleichenia linearis (Burm.f.) C.B.Clarke)
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Dicranopteris linearis (Burm.f.) Underw. (= Gleichenia linearis (Burm.f.) C.B.Clarke) |
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Dicranopteris linearis (Burm.f.) Underw. (= Gleichenia linearis (Burm.f.) C.B.Clarke)
Name.
English: savannah fern.
Range.
Malay Peninsula to Sumatra.
Uses.
Whole plant: Used as an antipyretic, antiasthmatic, and anthelmintic.
Notes.
In Indo-China the plant is considered to be anthelmintic. On the Malay Peninsula crushed leaves are applied as a poultice for fever, a decoction is used as an embrocation, or an infusion may be drunk ("large and strong doses are apparently injurious") ( Perry 1980).
Reference.
Nordal (1963).
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