Asplenium lividum Mett. & Kuhn

Rhizome suberect, up to 7 mm in diameter, set with brown, lanceolate, sharply acute, nitid, entire rhizome-scales c. 3 mm long. Fronds tufted, firmly herbaceous, not gemmiferous; stipe dark brown, often darker basally, set with scattered scales; lamina narrowly oblong-ovate acute, up to 365 x 90 mm, pinnatifid to weakly 3-pinnatifid, basal pinnae not reduced; pinnae in c. 16 pairs, unequally rhombic-attenuate, very unequally cuneate basally and deeply pinnatifid into narrowly oblanceolate, cuneate to linear, sharply serrate lobes, basal acroscopic lobe largest, upper surface glabrous, lower surface set with occasional scales. Sori 1-7 per lobe, c. 5 mm long; indusium membranous, entire, c. 0.4 mm broad.

On trees in forest; 2, 500 to 6, 500 ft. alt.