华南马尾杉 hua nan ma wei shan

Huperzia austrosinica Ching, Acta Bot. Yunnan. 3: 298. 1981.

Lycophytes, medium-sized. Stems caespitose, mature branches pendulous, 2 to several times forked, 20-70 cm, main stems ca. 5 mm in diam., stem together with leaves 2.5-3.3 cm wide. Trophophylls attached at right angles with stem or pointing upward, lustrous, elliptic, ca. 14 cm, more than 2.5-4 mm wide at middle, leathery, midrib distinct, base cuneate, decurrent, conspicuously stipitate, margin entire, apex obtuse. Strobili slightly thinner than sterile part, not columniform, terminal on branches. Sporophylls sparsely arranged, elliptic-lanceolate, 7-11 × ca. 1.2 mm, midrib distinct, base cuneate, margin entire, apex acute. Sporangia yellowish, reniform, vertically bisected.

● Epiphytic on rocks in forests; 700-2000 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan.

Phlegmariurus austrosinicus is very similar to P. petiolatus, but its leaves are elliptic and wider.