Synonym(s): Asplenium erectum Bory var. proliferum Hook.; A. multijugum Wall.; A. pavonicum Brack.

Indigenous

Latin normal is is used in botany to distinguish single-from double-flowered forms; perhaps applied here in refererence to the single proliferation at the tip of the frond.

Plants medium-sized, terrestrial. Rhizomes decumbent. Fronds 15-45 X 1.4-3.4 cm; a single proliferation terminates the tip of the rachis, proliferation embraced by 2 distal pinnae. Stipes 114-113 blade length, black, shiny. Blades 1-pinnate, narrow, linear-lanceolate, dark green, coriaceous; rachises black, shiny. Pinnae 30-40 pairs, short-stalked, alternate, uniform, oblong to trian-gular, 6-17 x 4-6.4 mm, dimidiate to sub-dimidiate, base often with distal auricle, distal margins entire to shallowly crenate with 6-10 broad marginal teeth, tips rounded to pointed. Veins inconspicuous, unforked below mid-vein, forked above, middle pinnae with 9-20 vein endings. Sori 4-8 above costae, 0-3 below. Indusia wide, thin. 

Locally common in mesic to dry forests, occasionally in wet forests, 375-1,680 m, all major islands. Also native from China to Australia, to Indonesia, the Celebes, and Sri Lanka.

Asplenium normale, a 1-pinnate fern, may be differentiated from A. hobdyi by its larger fronds and single plantlets at frond tips, terminating them and partially protected by enfolding pinnae. The larger pinnae have more veins, more teeth (6-10) on the upper margins, and more sori than do pinnae of A. hobdyi.