Blotiella glabra

Blotiella glabra is a member of the Dennstaedtiaceae family, a group of ferns commonly known as the bracken fern family. It is distributed across several African countries including Burundi, Cameroon, the Cape Provinces, Ethiopia, Gabon, the Gulf of Guinea Islands, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Mozambique, the Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Réunion, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe. The species was formally described in 1962 by R.M. Tryon, based on earlier work by Bory. It is part of the genus Blotiella, which includes several fern species primarily found in tropical and subtropical regions.