Creeping plants with primary branches 4-7 mm long, 1-4 furcate; leafy stems not obviously dorsiventral. Leaves 1-5-20 x 0-25 mm, bluish-green, soon becoming opaque-white, linear-lanceolate, adnate at the base, apex acute or acuminate ending in an opaque white straight seta 1/4 as long as the blade, margins with short cilia above becoming piliform towards the base, rather squarrose at the apex forming club-shaped branch tips; lower leaves soon becoming papyraceous and whitish (or colourless) lying close to the stem and soon breaking away. Strobilus 2-5 mm, forming at top of lowermost secondary branch; sporophylls in 4 ranks, those on the upper side lanceolate-ovate, on the underside broadly ovate and acuminate, margins long ciliate towards the base. Megaspores 125-200 µ, sub-scabrate to almost smooth, 3-radiate ridges absent. Microspores 45-50 µ, rugulate, finely scabrate, ± winged.
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