Cheilosoria tenuifolia (BURM. F.) TREVIS.
| Synonym : | Acrostichum tenue Retz. Cassebeera tenuifolia (Burm. f.) J. Sm. Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Burm. f.) Sw. Notholaena semiglabra Kunze Cheilanthes tenuifolia Swartz |
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| Bangla Name : | - |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Polypodiaceae |
| Disease : | witchcraft and swollen limbs. |
| Description : | Small annual fern, caudex short, creeping. Fronds 7.5-10 cm to a span and more long, ovate-acuminate or more or less deltoid, subtripinnate, pinnules elliptic, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, subpinnatifid or crenate, stipes and rachis purple-black, rachis winged. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong, Dhaka. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Fern contains two ecdysone analogues, cheilanthone A and B, and charaterised as 7,8-dihydroecdysone and 25-deoxy-7,8-digydoecdysone respectively (Rastogi & Mehrotra, 1993). |
| Uses : | Roots are preseribed for sickness attributed to witchcraft or the avil eye. Leaves are used as a poultice on swollen limbs |
| Habit : | Herb |