Asplenium theciferum (Kunth) Mett.

-theca: capsule bearing, referring to the terminal structure of the bulbous sorus;
connicum: pretty, elegant, referring to the pleasant look of this fern.

Rhizome erect, up to 12 mm in diameter; scales dark brown, lanceolate, margin ciliate, up to 6 mm long. Fronds tufted, not proliferous, fleshy. Stipe up to 13 cm, set with few scales becoming subglabrous with age, narrowly winged. Lamina 9-26 cm × 2.5-6 cm, 2-pinnate to 3-pinnatifid, narrowly oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate in outline. Pinnae glabrous, divided into linear-spathulate lobes, with the costa winged. Rhachis winged. Sori bulbous, oblong to circular, terminal on the apex of the ultimate lobes, each lobe carries a single sorus, indusium entire.

Angola, Bioko, Burundi, Cameroon,DRC, Equatorial guinea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Madagascan region