Description

Huperzia Carinata is a variable, epiphytic herb, with long, lax, pendulous branches; the narrower forms, slender and snake-like. Roots usually form one basal tuft. Stem is initially erect, becoming pendulous 35 to 50 centimeters by 7-15 millimeters, 1 to 4 times dichotomously branched, pale green. Leaves are sub approximate, spirally whorled in 6 to 8 rows, ascending, sessile; margins entire, apex acute, gray-green to yellowish-green, subcoriaceous, midrib distinct, keeled.. Strobili is terminal, cylindrical, 4 to 8 centimeters by 2.5 to 4 millimeters, distinctly demarcated from the vegetative parts of the stem, no branched.