Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "bank of River Mangatawhainui, near Norsewood, County of Waipawa". Type: W. Colenso in W.

Stems few, tufted, slender, up to 15 cm. long, pend., sparingly branched or unbranched; lvs scattered, pale green, spreading, often recurved, linear to narrow-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, c. 12 mm. long. Sporangia solitary in axils of upper, somewhat smaller, less acute lvs.

DIST.: N., S., St. Occasional in forests, epiphytic, mainly on tree ferns.