Christella dentata: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Polypodiopsida
- Order
- Polypodiales
- Family
- Thelypteridaceae
- Genus
- Christella
- Species
- Christella dentata
- Scientific Name
- Christella dentata
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Christella dentata
Christella dentata is a small fern with widespread distribution in Australia and islands in the south Pacific Ocean. There are many local common names. In New South Wales it grows north from the southern Illawarra region and is known as binung.
Found on the margins of rainforest, by streams or in more open forests with adequate moisture. Sori are circular in shape, with a hairy closed covering.
It was the first species of fern to become naturalised on the Hawaiian Islands, recorded initially in Oahu in 1887 and now found on all major islands there. There it interbreeds with the local species C. cyatheoides, with the resultant hybrid offspring sterile.
Christella dentata is an edible fern, and also a folk remedy for skin diseases. Pharmacological study found that water extract of the fern was as toxic as anticancer drug 5-fluorouracil against human chronic myelogenous leukemia cell line (K562).
...Christella dentata in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Getande Varing
- Afrikaans
- donsige moerasvaring
- Chinese
- 野小毛蕨
- Chinese
- 齒牙毛蕨
- Danish
- Ching
- English
- Binung
- English
- Soft Fern
- English
- christella
- English
- Tapering tri-vein fern
- English
- Downy maiden fern
- English
- Downy Shield Fern
- Japanese
- イヌケホシダ
- Portuguese
- Samambaia-rabo-de-gato
- Portuguese
- Rabo-de-gato
- Portuguese
- Samambaia-do-mato
- Russian
- Христелла зубчатая
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Christella acuminata
- Christella arida
- Christella balansae
- Christella boninensis
- Christella burmanica
- Christella buwaldae
- Christella callensii
- Christella calvescens
- Christella carolinensis
- Christella chaseana
- Christella clarkei
- Christella conspersa
- Christella crinipes
- Christella dentata
- Christella ensifera
- Christella evoluta
- Christella fukienensis
- Christella gretheri
- Christella guamensis
- Christella gueintziana
- Christella harveyi
- Christella hispidula
- Christella jaculosa
- Christella latipinna
- Christella multifrons
- Christella oblancifolia
- Christella papilio
- Christella parasitica
- Christella procera
- Christella prolixa
- Christella semisagittata
- Christella subelata
- Christella subjuncta
- Christella subpubescens































































































































































