English: Staunton's spike-moss.
Region: China.
Habitat: moist and shaded environments, in forests, woodlands, or along stream banks; humid conditions.
Ecology: ecosystem stability in understory vegetation in forests.
BotanyFerns; perennial; small, few cm tall; low-growing, creeping or ascending, forming dense mats, patches or tufts on the forest floor.
Stems: prostrate or ascending; usually branched; thin, wiry; typically green or reddish-brown in color; characterized by distinct nodes and internodes.
Leaves: small; scale-like; spirally arranged; lance-shaped and have a pointed apex; one-veined; with membranous margin.
Reproduction: via spores.
Sporangia: clustered into cone-like structures called strobili.
Spores: two types.