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Onychium japonicum

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Authors: Thunb.   Kuntze  

Botanical Description

Clump to colony forming, 25-60cm or more tall with creeping rhizomes. Fronds evergreen, triangular-ovate in outline, tri or quadripinnate, the ultimate pinnules lanceolate, 5-8mm in length. India to Malaysia, China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan, in low mountain forest. Elegant carrot-like leaves, but rather large and unreliably hardy.