Loxogramme abyssinica (Baker) M.G.Price

Plants epilithic or epiphytic. Rhizome wide-creeping, dorsiventrally flattened, to 1.3 mm in diameter, laterally branched, set with roots, the roots closely set with ferrugineous unicellular adhesive hairs, to 0.5 mm long, dorsally with two alternate rows of phyllopodia, to 2 mm long, to 44 mm apart, and scales, scales chartaceous, castaneus, adnate, subulate, cordate, entire to denticulate, often with unicellular thin-walled cells proximally along the margin, apical cell subulate or small and thin-walled, to 3 mm long, to 1 mm wide. Fronds monomorphic, erect to arching, to 235 mm long; stipe articulated to the phyllopodia, poorly defined, terete, narrowly winged along the entire length, to 28 mm long, basally sparsely scaled, scales similar to those on the rhizome; lamina firmly herbaceous, simple, entire, narrowly elliptic-cuneate, to oblong-cuneate, attenuate, to 210 mm long, to 22 mm wide, adaxially glabrous, abaxially sparsely set with clavate 2-celled hairs; costa adaxially raised, convex. Venation anadromous and catadromous, obscure, reticulate, areolae with or without included free veinlets. Sori linear, at a vascular plexus at an acute angle on either side of the costa, to 16 mm long, exindusiate; receptacle with simple, pluricellular, uniseriate hairs ending in a gland-like cell, to 0.3 mm long; sporangium long-stalked, simple, 3-seriate below the capsule, capsule globose in lateral view, with (12-)13(-14) indurated annulus cells, epistomium 4-celled, hypostomium (3-)4-celled. Spores 64 per sporangium, pale brown, ellipsoidal, monolete, rugate, (52-)61.04(-68) x (34-)41.42(-46) µm.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in deep shade in forest near rivers.