Japan Flora: Pendulous epiphyte; stems loosely forked, rather stout, deeply grooved, 40-^70 cm. long, to 8 mm. across at base excluding the leaves, or 2-2.5 cm. wide including the leaves; fertile branches terminal, several times forked，10-25 cm long, 1.5-2 mm. across; sterile leaves coriaceous, narrowly deltoid-ovate to broadly deltoid-lanceolate, 6-13 nun. long, 4-6 mm. wide, pungent at apex, rounded-truncate at base, very short-petiolate, spreading, lustrous, entire, silghtly recurved on margin, midrib not prominent; fertile leaves (bracts) dense, scalelike, about 1 mm. long and as wide, deltoid or deltoid-ovate, obtuse to rounded at apex, slightly shorter than to slightly longer than the reniformx:ordate sporangia.

Kyushu (Yakushima and Tanegashima); rather rare. Ryukyus and Formosa, and generally throughout the Old World Tropics.