Description:
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Plant up to 60(–100) cm long. Stems up to 4–5 mm thick at the base, brown. Leaves up to 15 x 3 mm, narrowly ovate in outline, base rounded, apex acute, entire, subleathery, spreading and forming an angle of 75–90º with the stem, often twisted; midrib visible. Spikes apical, up to 40 x 0.35 cm, including bracts, forked 1–3 times; bracts a little longer than the sporangia, rhombic, subacute at the apex, the lower ones longer than the others and passing gradually into the upper vegetative leaves. |