Elaphoglossum aubertii (Desv.) Moore

aubertii: this fern was first collected on Réunion by a French naturalist called Aubert du Petit-Thouars (1758-1831)

Rhizome short creeping to suberect, 3-8 mm in diameter; rhizome scales brown, lanceolate, entire, pointed. Fronds tufted, thinly herbaceous, erect or arching, simple, strongly dimorphous. Sterile fronds: stipe up to 14 cm long, straminous to pale brown, with persistent twisted squarose scales; lamina 20-40 × 1.5-2.5 cm, linear or very narrowly elliptic in outline, apex tapering to a point, base gradually tapering and then broadly wedge-shaped to the stipe, margins entire or slightly wavy with sparse brown scales, margins also with a continuous row of small dot-like hydathodes situated c. 1mm from the margin; midrib with scales similar to those of the stipe. Fertile fronds: stipe mostly double but up to five times as long as the stipes of the sterile fronds; lamina 6-10 × 1.7-2mm, resembling a spearhead, apex rounded to pointed, base square or truncate, entirely covered by sporangia on the underside.

This species is Afro-Malagasy in distribution, being at home in the higher African mountains of tropical and southern subtropical Africa, as well as in Malagasy and on the Comoro and Mascarene islands.

Elaphoglossum aubertii là một loài thực vật có mạch trong họ Lomariopsidaceae. Loài này được (Desv.) T. Moore mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1857.