Microsorum punctatum

학명 : Microsorum punctatum (L.) Copel.

분류 : 고란초과(Polypodiaceae)

* 품종 ‘Dragon Wing'으로 소개되어 있다

 

 

사진 : 2025.10.21 서울식물원

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Microsorum punctatum (Linnaeus) Copeland, Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 16: 111. 1929.星蕨 xing jue

 

Acrostichum punctatum Linnaeus, Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 1524. 1763; Phymatodes lingulata (Swartz) C. Presl; Pleopeltis punctata (Linnaeus) Beddome; Polypodium lingulatum Swartz; P. punctatum (Linnaeus) Swartz (1801), not Thunberg (1784).

 

Rhizome shortly creeping, subcylindrical, thick, 4-8 mm in diam., white waxy beneath scales. Scales pseudopeltate (sometimes peltate), appressed or slightly spreading, ovate or narrowly ovate or triangular, 1.5-8 × 0.5-3 mm, margin entire to denticulate to dentate, apex acute, clathrate or subclathrate, cells small, ± isodiametric or cells longitudinally rectangular, central region bearing multiseptate hairs at least when young or central region glabrous. Fronds not or slightly dimorphic. Stipe present or absent and lamina decurrent to its base. Lamina simple, narrowly obovate or narrowly ovate to narrowly elliptic to linear, 10-175 × 1.5-15 cm, herbaceous to subleathery (sometimes leathery), base narrowly decrescent, stipe winged for a considerable part to cuneate-decrescent or truncate to obtuse to cordate, auriculate, margin entire or undulate, apex acute to acuminate to rounded. Veins ± sunken and indistinct, or prominent and distinct. Sori separate, small, many, mostly irregularly scattered on smallest veinlets, in up to 8 irregular rows between costa and margin, up to 3 rows between adjacent costules, or some connate, elongate on veinlets, orbicular or elongate, superficial or slightly sunken, on whole surface of lamina or absent from basal parts; paraphyses with apical cell not enlarged.

 

Epiphytic, but also epilithic or terrestrial in various types of forests, sometimes in savanna but also in wet places; sea level to 700 m (in Taiwan). Chongqing, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan [India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; Africa (widespread), Australia, Indian Ocean islands (Mascarene Islands), Madagascar, Pacific islands].

 

Microsorum punctatum is a very widespread and variable species; see Nooteboom (Blumea 42: 353-354. 1997) for a more complete synonymy. Linnaeus’s type, "Habitat in China. J. Fothergill," appears to have been lost.

 

 

 

 

 

Wikipedia 설명

 

Microsorum punctatum is a fern from the subfamily Microsoroideae commonly called the fish-tail fern, climbing bird's nest fern, dwarf elkhorn fern, or wart fern.[1] It has been used in traditional medicine.

 

Description

Like other members of subfamily Microsoroideae, this species is a facultative epiphyte; it often grows epiphytically, but can also grow atop the soil surface (terrestrially) in moist, well-drained areas.[2]

The rhizome is small, short, 50 mm in diameter, covered with dark brown scales; elongated scales, similar to triangles, 8 mm long. Single leaf lanceolate shape, green, 550 mm long, 50 mm wide, indistinct petiole, clear leaf bone, 3 mm diameter, pointed tip, winged base of leaf, branched leaf repetition.

 

분포 : 중국 남부, 동남아시아, 아프리카

 

Uses

Juice extracted from the fronds (leaves) of the fern is used as purgative, diuretic, and wound healing agents in traditional medicine in Assam.[5]