Asplenium aethiopicum

Rhizome usually short and erect, covered with lanceolate, brown scales. Fronds clustered, erect, 10–60 cm long. Stipe shorter or longer than lamina, grooved, brittle, dark brown, shiny; scales similar to those of rhizome. Lamina narrowly triangular-oblong, 2-pinnate with pinnae further lobed or divided (sometimes almost 3-pinnate at base); scales numerous on young lamina, more common on rachises and veins, small, dark, with long hair-tips and broad bases; primary rachis grooved, dark. Pinnae stalked, asymmetrically ovate to triangular, c. 8–20 mm long, pinnately divided, thickened basal edge decurrent on raised edge of rachis; pinnules wedge-shaped, outer edge with narrow teeth or lobes, sometimes deeply divided; veins forking, close together, raised on upper surface. Sori linear, along veins; indusium linear-oblong, membranous.