Diplazium nemorale (Bak.) Schelpe

nemorale: belonging to a grove or woodland

Rhizome erect, with a short caudex up to 20 × 6 cm. Fronds large, tufted, arching, firmly herbaceous. Stipe up to 1m long, smooth except for a few scattered, linear, dark brown scales near the base. Lamina bipinnatifid to bipinnate in upper part, tripinnatifid below, up to 1.5m × 0.9m, ovate to roughly elliptic in outline. Pinnules 16-20 pairs, narrowly oblong-acuminate, apex obliquely serrate, base shortly petiolate, truncate, cut 1/4-2/3 to the costa into rectangular, falcate lobes with rounded to bluntly acute apices, margins entire to widely and shallowly crenate, glabrous on both surfaces, veins in 5-8 pairs per lobe, pinnate, bifurcate. Rhachis brown, subglabrous with few scattered, twisted, brown scales, particularly about the pinnule petioles. Sori linear, 2-4 mm long, 6-8 per lobe, basal acroscopic sori frequently arranged back to back; indusium brown, entire, membranous.

Rare

Bioko, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, São Tomé, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

Diplazium nemorale là một loài thực vật có mạch trong họ Woodsiaceae. Loài này được (Baker) Schelpe miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1967.