Russia Flora: Plant up to 15 cm tall. Horizontal stems lie in the soil at a depth of 6-8 cm. Aboveground, vertical branches branch repeatedly almost from the bottom, directed obliquely upward or compactly arranged, making them appear bush-like. Phyllodia arranged uniformly around the axis, curved upward in a sickle-like manner, semi-appressed, lanceolate, 5 mm long, 0.5 mm wide, shortly drawn out. Strobiloids sessile, up to 2.5 cm long, 5 mm wide. Sporophylloids rounded-ovate, sharply drawn into a point, with a membranous wavy coarsely serrated edge, at the base with a short reniform sporangium 1 mm long.

Okhotsk, Aldan, Kamchatka (southern), Northern Sakhalin, Southern Sakhalin — Larch and pine forests, rarely cedar-broadleaf forests. VII-IX. — General distribution: Eastern Siberia; Japan-China, North America. 

Note: L. juniperoideum appears to be a boreal derivative of the rather closely related species — L. obscurum, limited in its distribution mainly to the nemoral zone, from which it differs by having branches that are very unequal in length, upward-directed and compactly arranged, with almost appressed phyllodia, as well as strobiloids that exceed the branches in width.