Lycopodium emeiense Ching & H. S. Kung, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 18: 235. 1980.

Plants terrestrial. Stem erect or ascending, 6-12 cm, 1-1.5 mm in diam. at middle, together with leaves 1-1.5 cm wide, 2-4 times dichotomously branched, upper portion often with numerous bulbils. Leaves dense, reflexed, attached at right angles with stem or angled upward, not lustrous, linear-lanceolate, nearly as wide at base as middle, substraight, 6-11 × ca. 0.8 mm, papery, both surfaces glabrous, midrib indistinct, base truncate, decurrent, sessile, margin straight and not crispate, entire, apex acuminate. Sporophylls homomorphic with trophophylls; sporangia obviously visible or visible only on both sides of sporophylls, yellowish, reniform.

The leaves of Huperzia emeiensis are straight and papery and angled in various directions apically.

● Wet places in forests, shrubs in valleys, on rocks near streams or on tree trunks; 800-2800 m. Chongqing, N Guizhou, W Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, NE Yunnan (Daguan, Suijiang, Yiliang).