Asplenium lividum Mett. ex Kuhn

lividus: a bluish-leaden colour, reference unclear.

Rhizome suberect, up to 7 mm diameter; scales up to 3 mm long, brown, lanceolate, entire, acute. Fronds not proliferous, tufted. Stipe up to 20 cm, matt brown, set with short scales. Lamina 25-48 cm × 6-9 cm, 2-pinnatifid to 2-pinnate, narrowly oblong-lanceolate in outline. Pinnae hairless, pinnatifid, incised more than 1/2 way to the costa in oblanceolate to linear lobes, vennation pinnate, margins toothed. Sori 1-6 per lobe, situated alongside the costa between pinna loabes, linear, present on each lobe, indusium entire.  

Angola, Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Soa Tomé, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Madagascan region and South America