Melpomene flabelliformis (Poir.) A. R. Sm. & R. C. Moran

flabelliformis: fanshaped; unclear reference as the fronds are linear.

Rhizome creeping, c. 2 mm thick; scales grey-brown, lanceolate, entire, up to 2 mm long. Fronds spaced apart, erect, pinnatifid, sub-coriaceous to coriaceous. Stipe light-brown to black, up to 6 cm long, scattered with minute, pale brown scales, very narrowly winged. Lamina up to 17 × 1.7 cm, narrowly linear-elliptic in outline, glabrous, decrescent below, pinnatifid to the midrib into entire rounded oblong to quadrate lobes; midrib black, venation obscure. Sori 1-4 per lobe, intramarginal, set with castaneous hair-like paraphyses, exindusiate.

Bioko, Cameroon, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, Rwanda, Somalia, South africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.