| Synonym : | Ophiala zeylanica (L.) Desv.
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| Bangla Name : | Ekbir,Simskrankhi (Marma), Ghamassya (Chakma). |
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| English Name : | - |
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| Family : | Helminthostachyaceae |
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| Disease : | Uciatica, tonic, cough, dysentery, catarrh, phthisis, hemorrhage, impotency and jaundice. |
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| Description : | A stipitate fern, with thick, fleshy, creeping rhizome, stipes often 30 cm long, barren segment palmately pinnate, often in three principal divisions, which are again forked or pinnate, fertile spike solitary, arising from the base of the barren segment, 7.5-10 cm long and 13 mm broad. |
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| Distribution : | Chittagong Hill Tracts, Sundarbans and occasionally in other places. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | Rhizome of the plant contains 4 flavonoids, ugonin A, B, C and D, stigmasterol, fucosterol and dulcitol (Asolkar et al., 1992). |
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| Uses : | The plant has intoxicating properties, used in sciatica. It is regarded in the Moluccas as a mild aperient. The Malays regard the rhizome as a tonic and eat it with betel in whooping cough, it is also used in dysentery, catarrh, and early stage of phthisi |
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| Habit : | Herb |
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