Japan Flora: Stems slender, tufted, pendulous, 30-40 cm. long, sparingly forked, 2-3.5 mm. across including the leaves, prominently short-striate; leaves rather densely imbricate, broadly subulate, L5-3 mm. long, 0.2-0.5 mm. wide, acute, entire, strongly incurved above the middle, obtusely cari-nate on back at base, slightly concave on inside, more or less adnate to the stem at base; sporangia reniform-orbicular, more than half as long as the fertile leaves.

Kyushu (Yaku-shima) ; rare. Formosa and China.