Elaphoglossum macropodium (Fée) T. Moore

makros: large, pous: foot; "with large feet", an allusion to the thick creeping rhizome.

Rhizome creeping, thick, up to 5 mm (without scales); rhizome scales pale brown, concolorous, narrowly lanceolate in outline, apex forming a long drawn out point, margins entire or with hair-like outgrows. Fronds simple, dimorphic, closely spaced, erect to arching, thickly coriaceous. Sterile frond: stipe stramineous to pale green, up to 24 cm long, pale to reddish brown, glabrous with a few scales at the base, articulated at the base; lamina glossy green, 17-37 × 3-8 cm, ovate-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic in outline, apex broadly pointed to rounded, margins entire, glabrous except for minute scattered scales on the underside, midrib raised, convex below. Fertile frond: stipe up to 32 cm long, matt pale brown; lamina smaller and narrower than the sterile lamina, very narrowly elliptic in outline, up to 3 × 21 cm, undersurface completely covered with sporangia.

Comoro Isl. (Grande Comoro), Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

Elaphoglossum macropodium là một loài thực vật có mạch trong họ Lomariopsidaceae. Loài này được (Fée) T. Moore mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1857.