Haplopteris guineensis var. orientalis (Hieron.)

guineensis: from Guinea (West Africa), orientalis: implying that the variety's distribution occurs futher east.

Rhizome fairly thick, shortly creeping; rhizome scales narrowly lanceolate, with or without a short hair-tip, dark brown, c. 3.5 mm long, margins ciliate. Fronds simple, spaced 3-10 mm apart, coriaceous, arching or pendulous; stipe castaneous to black, up to 3 cm long. Lamina up to 35 × 0.6 cm, narrowly elliptic to linear, apex tapering to a point, base tapering, midrib obvious below but not raised, veins obscure. Sori in two submarginal grooves up to 0.6 mm from the margin; indusium continuous, along both sides of the soral line.

Rare

Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, São Tomé, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.