Abstract: There are about 21 species wild vegetable of ferns plant belonging to 13 genera and 16 families in West-Hunan of China, most of them are middle-lower elevation types. The flora is featured by tropical and subtropical elements and the plants have widespread, it shows the value of exploitation is big. In view of the some practical problems about exploitation at present of wild vegetable of Ferns plant in West- Hunan, we thought that we must exploit as quickly as possible at one side, and the other side, we must launch scientific research to the resources.

Key words: wild vegetable resource, Ferns plant, exploi tation, West-Hunan