| Family Name | Cyatheaceae |
| Scientific name | Cyathea lepifera |
| Common name | Cyathea lepifera |
| Growth habit | Distributed in the Philippines, Japan, Taiwan and mainland China Fujian region, grows at an altitude of 1500 meters. |
| Leaf | Leaves are bipinnate, dorsal are gray, leaves reaches up to 2 meters in length. |
| Flower | Lepifera not a flowering plant so there is no fruit, which it reproduced by the spores. |
| Fruit | The sporangia piled formed in the base of the small veins of the lower surface of the leaf veins, no spore membrane. |
| More to learn | Existed in about 3,000,006,000 years ago, which known as the "living fossil". |
| Properties | The upper part of stem: bitter |
| Treats | Tip of the trunk, sliced and dried, can be used to clean blood, blood stasis drugs |
| Reference | 筆筒樹 葉 孢子 筆筒樹 |