Lepisorus spicatus (L. fil.) Li Wang

spicata: arranged in a spike, referring to the fertile segment at the apex of the frond.

Rhizome shortly creeping rhizome, c. 4 mm in diameter; scales dark-brown, lanceolate, entire, up to 4 mm long. Fronds simple, closely spaced, erect, glabrous. Stipe up to 5 cm long, glabrous. Sterile lamina simple, 16-30 (including fertile segment) × 1.5-2.3 cm, narrowly elliptic in outline, base tapering, margins entire. Fertile segment linear, situated on top of the sterile lamina, c. 50 × 3 mm. Sori are spread out over the underside of the fertile segment.

Rare

Bioko, Cameroon, Comoro Islands, Congo, Coté d' Ivoire, DRC, Gabon, Guinea, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Réunion, Sao Tomé, Sechelles, Zimbabwe, Malawi and South Africa, Tanzania