Botany
Culantrillo is a small and delicate fern. Stipes are tufted, slender, dark brown, shining, glabrous, 5 to 20 cm long. Fronds are simply pinnate, leaflets are slenderly stalked, thin, oblong to semilunate in outline, 1 to 3.5 cm long and 0.8 to 1.5 cm broad, the lower margin being nearly straight or forming an angle at the insertion of the stalk, the upper margin semicircular, entire or slightly lobed. Sori are oblong to linear, and as long as the lobes are broad.
Distribution
On wet and damp banks or cliffs and in damp thickets, especially in the rainy season.
Common throughout the Philippines.
Generally distributed in the tropics.
Properties
Stomachic, diuretic.
Parts used
Fronds, fresh leaves.
Uses
Folkloric
Fronds, either in decoction or syrup, utilized as Adiantum capillus-veneris.
In the Philippines, administered to women in childbirth as Aristolochia species.
Decoction of fresh leaves used as stomachic and diuretic; used as a cure for dysentery.
Availability
Wild-crafted.
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