Plants terrestrial. Stem erect or ascending, 14-20 cm, 1.5-2 mm in diam. at middle, together with leaves 1.7-2 cm wide, 2-5 times dichotomously branched, upper portion often with bulbils. Leaves sparse, attached at right angles with stem, not lustrous, subulate, not contracted toward base, widest at base, falcate and bent upward, 0.9-1.1 cm, ca. 0.7 mm wide at base, thinly papery, both surfaces glabrous, midrib indistinct, base truncate, decurrent, sessile, margin entire, straight and not crispate, apex acuminate and with light-colored acute tip. Sporophylls homomorphic with trophophylls; sporangia obviously visible from outside of sporophylls, yellowish, reniform.

The leaves of Huperzia bucahwangensis are subulate and falcate, like those of Dicranum scoparium Hedwig.

● Moss-covered shrubs in forests; 2300-2500 m. Yunnan.