形態特徵

• Terrestrial plants; main stems prostrate, up to 40 cm long; erect leafy branches 3-8 cm tall, terete, forking several times.
• Leaves spirally arranged, narrowly lanceolate, 3-5 mm long, pointing towards apex.
• Strobili 1-3 cm long, one or rarely two at end of stalks, the stalks 2-8 cm long; sporophylls broadly ovate, the margins wavy, scarious, the apex acuminate.

分布

• 台灣 : Growing in grasslands of high mountains.
• 世界 : eastern Himalaya to western China.

引證標本

ILAN: Nanhutashan, Suzuki 17469. HSINCHU: Tapachienshan, Yang 9. TAICHUNG: Mt. Sylvia, Huang 7245; Hsuehsan, Kuo 4004. CHIAYI: Mt. Yushan, Suzuki s. n. 1933. HUALIEN: Tayuling, Hsu 11199; Hohuanshan, Kuo 434.

參考文獻

• TSAI, JINN-LAI and SHIEH, WANG-CHUENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 1: 43. 1994.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)