Lonchitis reducta C.Chr.

Rhizome erect, covered with red hairs. Fronds monomorphic, tufted, covered with soft, whitish hairs. Stipe 10 to 15 cm, streaked, thin, covered with long whitish hairs, soft, erect. Lamina pinnate, pinnatifid at the apex, oval in outline, 25 x 15 cm; pinnae 5-6 pairs, lanceolate, opposite, spaced about 5 cm apart, the lower ones slightly reduced, sessile or very shortly stalked, base truncate or subcordate, acute, margins lobed, with rounded lobes, entire, upper pinnae confluent, adnate; veins copiously anastomosed, forming several rows of areolas between the rib and the margin. Sori short, located at the bottom of the sinuses.

Under rocks, and in wet and humid places in forest undergrowth.

Africa, Madagascar.

Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea (incl. Bioko), Gabon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone.

Terrestrial.