Cibotium barometz is a large, rare fern native to Taiwan. This study evaluated the appropriate indicators of plant maturity and frond fertility by various morphological parameters. The caudex diameter is a better parameter to express the plant mature stage than other parameters, such as frond number, frond length, blade length, blade width, and frond shape (blade length! blade width) based on its significant difference and lower overlap degree between mature and immature plants, The leaf shape, which was measured by ”blade length/ blade width”, was more oblong and/or slender when the plant matured. Despite frond morphological parameters, such as frond length, blade length and blade width were significantly different between the fertile and sterile fronds. They could not represent appropriate indicators to evaluate the leaf fertility due to their high degree of overlapping.