[? Native name in Tasmania.] The edible fern of Tasmania and New Zealand, a variety of the common brake, Pleris aquilina var. esculenta. Also tara fern.
1834. Ross, Van Diemen’s Land Ann., 129 (Morris, Austral Eng.). The most extensively diffused eatable roots … are those of the tarn fern … [which] greatly resembles Pteris aquilina, the common fern, brake,… or brackin, of England,… it is known among the aborigines by the name of tara.
