Hemionitis ceterachoides (A.W.Klopper & Klopper) Christenh.

Rhizome erect. Frond monomorphic, tufted, suberect to spreading, 5.5-10 cm tall. Stipe 1.5-3.5 cm long, dark brown, shiny, set with pale brown, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, long pointed scales of two sizes. Lamina 2-pinnatifid to 2-pinnate, basal pinnae slightly reduced, narrowly ovate in outline; pinnae narrowly ovate to narrowly oblong in outline, upper surface green, sparsely set with white hair-like scales, denser towards the costa and on the rhachis, undersurface thickly covered with pale brown, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, long pointed, overlapping scales; rhachis undersurface as for stipe. Sori marginal, discontinuous, obscured by the scales; exindusiate.

ceterachoides: resembling Ceterach; this fern looks like Ceterach cordatum (now named Asplenium cordatum).

Vertical dolomite cliffs, growing in cracks and fissures, c. 700m.

See African distribution.

South Africa.

Lithophytic.