Pyrrosia piloselloides, also known as the Dragon-scale fern, is a fern first published in 1974. Native to a wide range from Southwest India to Japan and Papuasia, it is an epiphytic fern that primarily grows in wet tropical biomes. The species is characterized by its dimorphic fronds and rhizomes covered in scales. It has distinct star-like hairs that cover its fronds.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Dragon-Scale fern being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Lemmaphyllum microphyllum
- Pyrrosia adnascens
- Pyrrosia lanceolata
- Pyrrosia rupestris
- Pyrrosia nummulariifolia
- Microgramma reptans
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Polypodiopsida
- Order
- Polypodiales
- Family
- Polypodiaceae
- Genus
- Pyrrosia
- Species
- Pyrrosia piloselloides
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