Japan Flora: Climbing on trees; stems much elongate, terete, wiry; leaves of sterile stems scalelike, appressed, linear-lanceolate, convex on back, not keeled, 1.5-2 mm. long, with a long hairlike tip 2-4 mm. long; branches rather loosely disposed, 20-40 cm. long, rami­fied, pendulous, the branchlets much flattened, 1.5-4 mm. wide inclusive of the loosely arranged leaves; leaves of branch- lets prominently decurrent, firm, the free portion deltoid and appressed to lanceolate and ascending, 0.5-2 mm. long, obsoletely toothed, with a hyaline tardily deciduous apical hair; spikes in groups of 2-10, pedunculate, erect, pedicelled, cylin- dric, 2-5 cm. long, the bracts ovate-deltoid, 2.5-3 mm. long, undulate-toothed, with a hyaline apical hair. Pine forests. 

Honshu (Kii Prov.), Kyushu; very rare. Formosa, China, Philippines, and Malaysia to n. India.