Centrolepis pallida (Hook.F.) Cheeseman

Dense, pale or bright green, moss-like cushions. Roots comparatively thick, but < 0.5 mm. diam. Stems 1.5–4 cm. long. Lvs 6–9 mm. long, < 0.5 mm. wide, distichous, equitant at the base, closely imbricate up the stem, lamina stiff, erect, glab., subulate, laterally compressed or occ. channelled, narrowed to an acute or occ. shortly acicular tip; lf-sheaths c. ½ length of lamina, very pale cream, membr., without ligule or auricles. Flowering stems c. = lvs. Floral bracts 2, ± opp., unequal in length, the lower larger. Pseudanthia, 1 in each floral bract, or 1 bract without pseudanthium; ♂ 1 only, in the lowermost pseudanthium, at maturity the filament elongated excessively and the anther far exserted; ♀ 1–3–(4) in each pseudanthium; hyaline scales 0. Seed ± 0.5 mm. long, oblong-obovate, apiculate at one end.