English: Forked fern; Parsley fern.
Synonyms: Osmunda phyllitidis.
Clades:
PteridaceaeRegion: tropical and subtropical; worldwide; Asia, Africa, Americas, Pacific Islands.
Habitat: in moist and shaded environments, rainforests, dense, shady forest, tropical moist broadleaf forest,woodlands, wet areas; on the forest floor or along stream banks.
BotanyFern; terrestrial, rupicolous; lithophyte; photoautotroph.
Stem: rhizomes, creeping underground.
Leaves: pinnate, 2 to 4 times pinnate; lacy; leaflets narrowly oblong or lance-shaped; fleshy; glossy; 70 cm long.
Reproduction: alternation of generations.
Sori: oblong and are protected by indusia.
Spores: arrangement trilete.