Thelypteris pozoi (Lag.) C.V. Morton
Hemionitis pozoi Lag.
Leptogramme pozoi (Lag.) Heywood
Polypodium tottum Willd.
Nephrodium tottum (Willd.) Diels
Dryopteris africana (Desv.) C.Chr.

Rhizome shortly creeping, then erect, up to 3 mm in diameter; rhizome scales lanceolate in outline, up to 1.5(1-5?) mm long, margin ciliate, dark brown. Fronds monomorphic, tufted, arching, not proliferous, softly herbaceous. Stipe up to 30 cm long, pale brown, thinly set with short white hairs and a few brown scales basally. Lamina up to 46 × 25 cm, 2-pinnatifid, narrowly elliptic to ovate-lanceolate in outline, apex tapering to a point with pinnatifid terminal segment, basal pair of pinnae somewhat reduced and deflexed, lower 4-8 pairs of pinnae free; pinnae 12-15 pairs, narrowly oblong in outline, base truncate, incised three quarters of the way to the costa into broadly oblong ultimate lobes, apex rounded, margin lobed; both surfaces hairy, more so along the veins, costa and costules; veins not meeting below or rarely touching at the sinus or one vein ending in the sinus and the other slightly above it; rhachis strawcoloured, with short and long white hairs. Sori oval to linear along the veins, up to 2 mm long; exindusiate.

Could be confused with species of the genus of Diplazium, but they have much larger fronds (up to 2m).
Stegnogramma pozoi look for: linear sori!

pozoi: first collected by D.G. del Pozo in nothern Spain.

In deep shade on forest floor and more rarely on mossy rocks along mountain streams in evergreen forest.

Algeria, Bioko, Cameroon, Comoro Isl. Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Morocco, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Algeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea (incl. Bioko), Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco and Western Sahara, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan and South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania , Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Lithophytic, terrestrial.