Sinopteridaceae

herb, the root stems stand upright or tilted, thinly walked, have a tutular mid-pillar, chestnut brown to red-brown scaly hair. Leaf clusters; one to three feather-like splits; leaf triangles to pentagons; leaf handle maroon or near black. Spore cysts are round or long round, born along the small veins of the leaf edge, and are covered by cystic lids formed by the membrane ovoid edge of the anti-roll; spore cysts are spherical pear-shaped, with short handles; spore spherical, tetular, or two-sided. Chromosomes: X-15, (30), 29. 14 genus, about 300 species, distributed in the subtropical region, China has 8 genus, 60 species, distributed throughout the country. 6 genus known for medicinal use, 16 species.
pheasant tail (golden flower grass, Chinese golden powder) Onychium japonicum (Thunb.) Kze. Perennian evergreen herbs with brown scales. Leaves four to five back feather-like deep cracking, the last feather piece is usually egg-shaped shawl needle-shaped. On the cross vein of the edge of the back edge of the spore cystic cyst; Distributed in the Yangtze River basin provinces, north to Hebei, Henan, Qinling and other places. Born on the edge of a ditch under a forest or in a wet area of thickets. Whole herbal medicine, can clear the heat detoxification, diuretic, yellowing, hemostic. The solution of food poisoning (such as mushrooms, etc.) has a better effect. There is also Lindsaeaceae's Stenoloma Chusanum (L.) Ching, which looks slightly like a weed tail, but whose leaf cleavage is flat first rather than pointed; the spore sacs are located at the top of the fissure and the top is born on a small vein. The two are easy to distinguish. The efficacy is approximate.。