Psilotaceae FAMILY

Psilotum nudum

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Skeleton fork fern is a perennial, terrestrial or epiphytic fern-like plant with stems up to 60cm long, either growing erect or, when growing as an epiphyte, often pendulous[ 200 Title The New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. 1992. Publication Author Huxley. A. Publisher MacMillan Press Year 1992 ISBN 0-333-47494-5 Description Excellent and very comprehensive, though it contains a number of silly mistakes. Readable yet also very detailed. ]. A primitive plant with short, creeping rhizomes, but lacking true roots[ 200 Title The New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. 1992. Publication Author Huxley. A. Publisher MacMillan Press Year 1992 ISBN 0-333-47494-5 Description Excellent and very comprehensive, though it contains a number of silly mistakes. Readable yet also very detailed. ]. The plant is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a tea. It is commonly cultivated as an ornamental[ 200 Title The New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. 1992. Publication Author Huxley. A. Publisher MacMillan Press Year 1992 ISBN 0-333-47494-5 Description Excellent and very comprehensive, though it contains a number of silly mistakes. Readable yet also very detailed. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeFound throughout the tropics and subtropics.

HabitatFound in moist to dry localities, on soil, among rocks, and on trees in Hawaii[ 417 Title Hawaiian Ethnobotany Online Database Publication Author Website http://www2.bishopmuseum.org/ethnobotanydb/index.asp Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Brief details on over 100 species of Hawaiian plants. ]. In thickets, open forests and clearings, on trunks of trees or in rocky crevices of cliffs, at elevations from sea level to 1,300 metres in Guatemala[ 489 Title Ferns and Fern Allies of Guatemala Publication Author Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Field Museum of Natural History Year 1981 ISBN Description A flora of the ferns of Guatemala, giving some plant uses. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ].