This paper considers a model, isothermal, autocatalytic reaction scheme with termination when the reaction orders m, n are fractional, i.e., 0 < m, n < 1. With k measuring the strength of the termination step, it is shown that finite speed propagating wavefronts can persist in the system if and only if m > n and k ∈ (0, kc), where kc depends upon m and n. It is further established that these wavefronts are of excitable (rather than Fisher-Kolmogorov) type and have only semi-infinite support (that is, the reaction is totally dormant ahead of the wavefront). These features are in contrast to the case when m, n ≥ 1 as studied by Merkin, Needham, and Scott [Proc.