Amauropelta bergiana (Schltdl.) Holttum var. bergiana

bergiana: named after C.H.Bergius (1790-1818), German botanist.

Rhizome erect, suberect; rhizome scales up to 8 mm long, brown, lanceolate, subentire. Fronds tufted, arching, not proliferous, herbaceous. Stipe up to 32 cm long, strawcoloured to greyish brown, with minute white hairs and with scales similar to those on the rhizome near the base. Lamina up to 95 × 26 cm, narrowly elliptic in outline, deeply 2-pinnatifid, apex tapering to a point, lower pinnae gradually reduced and widely spaced, with usually 1 pair of very small, vestigial pinnae. Pinnae narrowly oblong-acuminate, up to 16 × 2.5 cm; undersurface with short, pale hairs, many of which are hooked, upper surface with short, straight hairs. Ultimate lobes oblong, apex rounded, margins entire; veins 8-10 pairs, not meeting the veins of the adjacent lobes. Rhachis pale brown, with scattered hooked hairs below. Sori numerous, small, rounded, submarginal on the veins; indusia small, with few hairs, lost at maturity.

Angola, Bioko, Burundi, Cameroon, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.