Anemia lepigera (Bak.) Christenh.

lepigera: scale-bearing, referring to the undersurface of the fronds that are densely covered in scales

Rhizome shortly creeping; scales pale brown, entire, up to 2 mm, ovate-lanceolate. Fronds closely spaced. Stipe 0.5-13 cm, pale brown, with whitish scales. Lamina 13-48 cm × 2-5.5 cm, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic in outline, 2- to 3- pinnatifid, with some much-reduced pinnae basaly. Lower surface of the pinnae covered with white, lanceolate, overlapping scales; these are also present on the stipe & rhachis. Upper surface slightly hairy, occasionaly with yellow glands. Ultimate segments incised into toothed lobes. Sporangia solitary, submarginal, partly covered by reflexed lobe margin, often obscured by scales.

Burundi, DRC, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, also Madagascar