Blotiella glabra (Bory) R. Tryon

glabra: hairless; reference not clear.

Rhizome widely creeping, 3-5 mm diameter, ending in a suberect, somewhat enlarged aerial portion; rhizome hairs dense, shiny brown, up to 15 mm long. Fronds closely spaced. Stipe up to 0.8 m, thinly pubescent with short, brown hairs. Lamina 0.5-1.3 m × 0.3-0.8 m, ovate in outline, 2- to 3-pinnatifid, thinly pubescent on both surfaces, secondary rhachis winged. Pinnae uniformly incised from the apex towards the base with the pinnules variously incised or pinnatifid into rounded lobes. Sori ± crescent-shaped, situated at the base of the sinuses between the pinnules; indusium present.

Widespread on tropical African mountains, also S Africa and the Madagascan region.