Corm 3-lobed, 10–20 mm wide, bud scales c. 9 × 4 mm, cuspidate, blackish. Leaves (6–)10 or 11, 240–400(–460) mm long, 4–5 mm wide at base, c. 1 mm wide at apex, tapering gradually to a slender apex. Ligule not seen. Velum absent. Megasporangia c. 5 × 3 mm, sporangial wall pale. Megaspores c. 400 × 400 μm; proximal face trilete, bearing spaced tubercles 7–11 per areole, 11.25–22.5 μm in diam., with dense threads in between, only a small apex free of waxes, ridges c. 50 μm wide and c. 20 μm high, almost free of waxes; distal face with spaced larger and smaller pustules, 30–45 μm in diam., partly anastomosing, c. 26.25 × 15 μm, with dense threads between pustules, large apex of pustules free of waxes. Microspores not seen.

pichi-sermollii: named after R.E.G. Pichi Sermolli (1912–2005), Italian pteridologist , who first mentioned the taxon from Burundi.

Seasonally waterlogged depression in palm savanne.

See African distribution.

Burundi.

Terrestrial.