Japan Flora: Epiphytic; stems solitary or few together, rather stout, 15-30 cm. long, erect, short-ascending at base, 3-5 mm. across near base, or 2-3 cm. across including the leaves, sparsely forked; sterile leaves coriaceous, rather dense, spirally arranged, broadly linear to linear-lanceolate, 12-18 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. wide, gradually narrowed and obtusish at tip, shortly adnate to the stem at base, entire, slightly recurved on margin, flat, lustrous above, the midrib broad, obsoletely raised at tip; fertile leaves simulating the sterile, very slightly smaller; sporangia reni- form.

Hokkaido (Oshima and Hidaka Prov.), Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; rare.