English: House holly-fern; Japanese holly fern.
Region: eastern Asia; intrduced in Europe, North America, Atlantic Islands, Australia, New Zealand, South America.
Habitat: crevices in coastal cliffs, stream banks, rocky slopes, other moist, stable areas; prefers light shade to deep shade, average fern soil.
Use: popular ornamental in temperate climate gardens or as a house plant, easily propagated by spores or rhizome division.
BotanyFern; perennial.
Root: rhizome large, light brown.
Leaves: exceeding 50 cm in length; poinnate, 6 to 10 pairs of shiny bright green leaflets; leaflet leathery, with flat to wavy to slightly toothed margin, venetion netlike; sori on the underside.
Sori: beneath brown or black indusia.