Lycopodium sitchense var. nikoense("Takanehikagenokazura")
Japanese name: タカネヒカゲノカズラ（高嶺日陰葛） Scientific name:Lycopodium sitchense var. nikoense
[Overview]
An evergreen fern 3–12 cm tall, found in the alpine zone.
The main axis creeps far along the ground, branches irregularly, and bears roots and scale-like leaves.
The lateral branches are erect or ascending, and branch forked two to several times.
The leaves are needle-like to linear-lanceolate, 0.2–0.3 cm long, ascending obliquely and curving inward.
The leaf tips are pointed and the texture is hard.
At the tips of long extended twigs, it bears 1–2 cylindrical spore-bearing spikes, 1–3 cm long and 0.2–0.3 cm in diameter.
The spike has no stalk, or a stalk 3 cm or less long.
The sporophylls are broadly ovate.
