English: Parsley lip fern.
Region: South Africa.
Habitat: dry rocky cliffs; prefers sun to part sun, tops hot and roots cool under large rocks; altitude ± 1000m
BotanyFern; 30 cm tall.
Root: rhizome short creeping or erect; 5 mm in diameter; rhizome scales brown with dark central stripe and pale margins, awl-shaped, margin entire, up to 9 mm long.
Stem: stipe reddish to dark brown; ± 25 cm long; with reddish brown hairlike scales; standing out stiffly from the stipe; with brown scales at the stipe base
Leaves: rich green; deeply cut; upright fronds form a 1' tall x 1' wide deer-resistant clump that goes tardily deciduous in our climate; tufted, erect, rigid, herbaceous to fairly coriaceous;; lamina 8 to 60 cm long, 2 to 15 cm wide, lanceolate to linear-elliptic in outline, 2-pinnate to 4-pinnatifid.; pinnules triangular to oblong-ovate in outline, rounded, cut into rounded or slightly lobed segments, with scattered, long, often gland-tipped hairs on both surfaces; veins free, indistinct; rhachis and secondary rhachises brown to reddish, set with reddish brown, sometimes gland-tipped, hairs.
Sori: small, discrete, on margins of slightly inrolled lobes; indusium minute or absent.