Polypodium synsorum Baker

Rhizome short-creeping to long-creeping, branched; rhizome scales lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate in outline, dark brown to blackish, glabrous. Fronds simple, closely spaced, stipes 1– 8 mm apart in each row. Stipes 2–7 mm long, with whitish to pale red-brown simple hairs (0.2–1 mm long). Lamina narrowly oblanceolate in outline, 1.8–2.9 x 0.3–0.5 cm, apex rounded, base long-attenuate, sometimes glabrous, usually with whitish simple hairs 0.4–1 mm long on lower surface of lamina in soral area; lateral veins simple, each vein-ending marked by a round to slightly elongate hydathode on upper surface of lamina, free. Sori in apical 1/5 to 1/2 of lamina, 1– 8 in each row.

High epiphyte in Ocotea-Allenblackia-Anthocleista-Podocarpus forest, growing with bryophytes, G. kyimbilensis and G. pygmaeae.

Africa, Madagascar.

Tanzania .

Epiphytic.