Ecology Diplazium Esculentum (Retz.) Sw Athyriaceae In Forest Areas Halimun Salak Mountain National Park, West Java

Diplazium esculentum (Retz.) Sw belong to the tribe Athyriceae, has a habitat in wet areas such as soil and stagnant swamps and woods. Plants are often found in flat or sandy areas near the edge of the river. This plant is easy to expand the spread by spores. Beads of very fine spores will fly and fall off the ground or any other object then the spores will germinate rapidly growing. The roots are strong and often grows out of the ground, in the end, growing young leaves adjacent to one another. This plant has many benefits, leaves of young shoots can be used as food ingredients are quite tasty. With the rampant destruction of forests, plant species potentially feared would be lost and could not be recorded. This study aims to assess and reveal the diversity of plants under potentially ecologically or as foodstuffs and medicines. The data collection is done by the method of exploratory field observations to determine the location of the study, then at selected sites created plots with an area of 1 hectare squares. Plants were collected and then made a herbarium. Making herbarium done so that collection is not quickly broken. Based on identification and analysis of data known to the types of potentially include Diplazium esculentum with important values (IV = 21.63). Prosiding Seminar Nasional Biologi (SEMABIO) “ Eksplorasi dan Pemanfaatan Biodiversitas untuk menghadapi Masyarakat Ekonomi ASEAN (MEA)”. Bandung 31 Maei 2016