华西石杉 hua xi shi shan

Plants epilithic. Stem erect or ascending, 3.5-7 cm, ca. 1.5 mm in diam. at middle, together with leaves 4-5 mm wide, 1-5 times dichotomously branched, upper middle portion often with numerous bulbils. Leaves sparse, strongly reflexed, flat abaxially, lustrous, elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, sometimes upper portion involute, 1.5-3 mm, 0.7-1 mm wide at middle, thinly leathery, both surfaces glabrous, midrib indistinct, base slightly or not contracted, decurrent, sessile, margin not involute, upper portion often with acute small teeth or subentire, apex acute. Sporophylls homomorphic with trophophylls; sporangia in axils of upper sporophylls, slightly visible from outside of sporophylls, yellowish, reniform.

Alpine meadows; above 2000 m. W Sichuan, Xizang [India (Sikkim), Myanmar, Nepal].

Sichuan (Kangding) is the northernmost and westernmost distribution of Huperzia dixitiana.

Huperzia dixitiana is a small-sized Huperzia. It is similar to H. selago, but the upper portion of its leaves have acute small teeth.