Epiphytic or terrestial plants. Aerial shoots pendulous or suberect, unbranched, 6–39 cm long, growing for one or a number of seasons and terminating in a small or large sterile or rarely sporogenous leaf; lower portion of shoot below leaves ribbed on all sides. Leaves spirally arranged, 2–4 per cm, 8–35 mm long, 1.5–5 mm wide in distal half, tapering to base; upper surface very shiny; lower surface dull; margins parallel; apex truncate or more rarely obtuse, mucronate. Synangia in upper half of shoot biconic, abruptly tapering or obtuse, persistent, 3.5–5.5 mm long; length 2–3 times height. [See also Green (1994: 548).]
An epiphyte on the bases and branches of trees, tree ferns and Todea barbara or terrestrial on humus accumulations on banks, or on rocks or in crevices, to over 1000 m altitude. On Lord Howe Island common as an epiphyte on tree fern trunks in the mountains (Green 1994: 548).
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