Asplenium gueinzianum Mett. ex Kuhn

friesiorum: probably named after R.E. Fries (1876-1966), a Swedish botanist who joined the Swedish Rhodesia-Congo Exp. (1911-1912)

Rhizome widely creeping, branched; scales shiny brown, up to 4 mm, entire. Fronds widely spaced, not proliferous, pendent. Stipe up to 70 cm, dark brown, sparsely set with brown scales becoming glabrous with age. Lamina up to c. 1m long and c. 25 cm wide, pinnate to 2-pinnatifid, narrowly oblong to lanceolate in outline. Pinnae up to 13 × 1.5 cm, linear-lanceolate, hairless, margins incised, incisions 1/3 to 2/3 of the way towards the midrib into toothed lobes, base unequally cuneate, apex tapering to a fine extended apex. Sori linear, set almost continuous in two lines along the midrib, indusium entire.

Angola, Bioko, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Soa Tomé, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Madagascan region