Asplenium christii Hieron.

christii: named after K.H.H. Christ, a German plant geographer & taxonomist.

Rhizome erect, c. 4 mm thick; scales brown, entire, lanceolate, up to 2 mm long. Fronds strongly dimorphic, fertile fronds twice as long as sterile fronds, tufted. Sterile lamina not-gemmiferous, 15 × 8 cm, pinnate, lanceolate-ovate in outline. Fertile lamina gemmiferous on the rhachis below the terminal segment, 25 × 8.5 cm, pinnate and lanceolate in outline. Stipe up to 12 cm (sterile frond)-20 cm (fertile frond), subglabrous. Pinnae smaller and more widely spaced towards the apex, oblong to narrowly triangular, base unequal, margins crenate to serrate, hairless on both surfaces. Sori linear, set at 45 degrees to the costa, indusium present.

Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South africa