Acrostichum stemaria P.Beauv.
Alcicornium stemaria (P.Beauv.) Underw.
Platycerium stemaria (P.Beauv.) Desv. var. laurentii De Wild.
Neuroplatyceros aethiopicus Fée
Platycerium aethiopicum Hook.

Rhizome-scales light brown, 5–14 x 0.5–1.7 mm. Fronds dimorphous. Sterile basal fronds erect, 30–60 x 15–30 cm, base wedge-shaped, apex truncate, margin upper part entire or irregularly toothed, lower part entire, densely white stellate-pubescent beneath. Fertile or sterile foliage fronds spreading or pendulous, 30–90 cm long, ± symmetrical, once to twice dichotomously forked, base wedge-shaped, apex entire or irregularly dentate, stellate-pubescent above, later glabrescent, velvety white stellate-pubescent beneath. Soral patches 2, dark red brown, situated around the ultimate sinuses or apically, horizontally placed, broadly triangular to U-shaped.

Trees in open or in secondary forest or rain forest at low elevations.

Africa, Principe, Sao Tomé.

Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Dem. Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea (incl. Bioko), Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Senegal, Sudan and South Sudan, Uganda.

Epiphytic, lithophytic.