Asplenium dufourii Fée
Asplenium pachysorum C.Chr.

Rhizome erect, short, up to 6 cm thick; rhizome scales dark brown, narrowly lanceolate in outline, shortly hair-tipped, up to 14 mm long, margins entire with scattered hair-like outgrowths. Fronds tufted, erect or arching, herbaceous to thinly coriaceous, non-gemmiferous. Stipe 9-24(-35) cm long, pale brown when dry, lightly set with small hair-like scales when young, becoming glabrous at maturity, with a longitudinal groove below. Lamina 20-60 x 13.5-29 cm, pinnate, ovate to obovate in outline. Pinnae 3-8 (-14?) pairs, oblong-lanceolate in outline, up to 15 x 4.5 cm, apex sharply pointed or tapering to a point, base unequal with midrib forming the basiscopic margin for some distance, petiolate, dark glossy green above, pale matt below, margins sharply toothed. Sori linear, 6-20 mm long, parallel along the veins; indusium entire, less than 1 mm broad, membranous.

prionitis: like a saw, this fern has toothed pinna margins.

On ground or boulders along streams or river courses, deep shade in wet coastal forests.

Africa, Madagascar, Comoro and Mascarene Islands.

South Africa.

Lithophytic, terrestrial.