Japan Flora: Firmer on all parts; stems creeping, 5-15 cm. long, simple or sparingly forked, rather densely leaved; leaves subu­late-lanceolate or linear, 4-7 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, acu­minate, entire, the lateral ones ascending; scapes (peduncles) arising directly from cixeping stems, solitary, simple, erect, 4-7 cm. long, about 1.5 mm. across; scalelike leaves of scape loosely disposed, erect to suberect, subulate, about 3 mm. long; spikes terminal, solitary, erect, cylindric, 2-5 cm. long, about 3 mm. wide, densely many-leaved; bracts imbricate, scalelike, deltoid- ovate, about 3 mm. long, scarcely 2 mm. wide, acuminate, erose on membranous lower margin, pale yellowish, obliquely spreading, with a broad entire cusp at apex; sporangia reni- form. Wet boggy places.

Honshu (Mount Tenganzan in Oomi Prov.); very rare. N. and S. America, S. Africa, Mauritius, Ceylon, and Malaysia.