Tarachia splendens (Kunze) C.Presl.
Asplenium cuneatum Lam. var. splendens (Kunze) Sim

Rhizome shortly creeping, 4-7 mm thick; rhizome scales midbrown, subulate-lanceolate, hairtipped, margin entire or with few outgrowths, up to 7 mm long. Fronds spaced 2-6 mm apart, not proliferous. Stipe 9-25 cm long, densely set with lacerate, hairlike scales when young, becoming subglabrous with age, dark brown below, green above. Lamina 8-45 cm × 6-28 cm, 2-pinnate, rarely 3-pinnate on the basiscopic pinnules of the basal pinnae. Pinnules broadly obcuneate to subrhombic, becoming narrower apically, bases unequally cuneate, petiolate, margins irregular, toothed, shallowly incised into irregular lobes, mid to dark green above, shiny, paler below, hairless or with a few, minute, twisted hairs on the undersurface. Rhachis and secondary rhachises green, lightly set with twisted hair-like scales. Sori numerous, linear, 5-14 mm long, set along the veins, indusium entire, linear.

splendens: shining, probably referring to the glossy green fronds of this fern.

Evergreen forest, not usually near water.

See African distribution.

South Africa, Swaziland.

Epiphytic, lithophytic, terrestrial.