Asplenium dregeanum Kunze

dregeanum: named after J.F. Drège (1794-1881), a German horticulturist and plant collector in southern Africa.

Rhizome erect, c. 3 mm thick; scales brown, 1-5 mm long, margins entire. Fronds tufted, proliferous near the apex, the apical segment above the proliferating bud has less than 5 lobes. Stipe up to 17 cm, greyish-brown, sometimes narrowly winged, subglabrous. Lamina 16-39 cm × 3.5-6 cm, 2-pinnate to 3-pinnatifid, narrowly lanceolate to oblong in outline. Pinnae up to 35 × 11 mm, acroscopically developed, glabrous to subglabrous, lobes narrowly oblong-obtuse. Pinnae with 1-3 basiscopic pinnae lobes; the first arising between the 2nd-4th acroscopic lobes. Sori up to 2 mm, elliptic, one centrally located per lobe, indusium entire.  

Angola, Bioko, Burundi, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, DRC, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Soa Tomé, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Madagascan region