Clades: Thelypteridaceae
Synonyms: Abacopteris prolifera; Aspidium proliferum; Cyclosorus prolifer; Dryopteris prolifera; Goniopteris prolifera; Hemionitis prolifera; Meniscium proliferum; Nephrodium proliferum; Phegopteris luxurians; Polypodium luxurians; Thelypteris prolifera.
Region: tropical Africa; Asia to New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia.
Habitat: full sunlight; scrambling amongst tall grasses, sedges or shrubs in freshwater swamps, or beside rivers, ponds and lakes;elevations up to 1250 metres.
Use: food, cooked vegetable in India; medicine; ornamental.

BotanyFern; scrambling; usually sterile.
Stems up to 4 metres long; growing from a short-creeping rhizome 4 to 10 mm in diameter.
Leaves: proliferous buds scattered along the rachis of the fronds which can develop into new plants.
Sori: produced in dry periods.
Reproduction: by buds, along river systems