Arthropteris monocarpa (Cordem.) C. Chr.

monocarpa: with one fruit; refers to a single sorus on each lobe of the frond, however this species can have up to 6 sori per pinna lobe.

Rhizome widely creeping, c. 2 mm in diamater; rhizome scales subcircular to broadly ovate, brown, up to 1.5 mm long, margins entire. Stipe up to 18 cm, articulated near the base, pale brown, glabrous at maturity. Fronds spaced apart, erect to arching. Lamina up to 33 × 12 cm, oblong-lanceolate in outline, deeply 2-pinnatifid with 13-17 alternate pairs of pinnae and a pinnatifid terminal segment. Pinnae up to 7.5 × 1.5 mm, subsessile to shortly petiolate, articulated to the rhachis, oblong-lanceolate in outline, apex tapering into a long drawn-out point, broadest at base, basal 2 pairs of pinnae slightly reduced; ultimate lobes oblong with rounded apices, glabrous but with sparse white hairs along the veins, costules and costae below, white dots on the upper surface absent. Sori circular, usually solitary in each lobe, but sometimes up to 6 per lobe; indusium c.1 mm in diameter.

Widespread in tropical and southern Africa, also in Madagascar, Comoro Isl. and Réunion.