Description: Terrestrial or epiphytic plants; rhizomes short-creeping, much branched; aerial stems green, glabrous, erect to pendent, with several dichotomous divisions.
Leaves scale-like.
Fertile leaves bifid; synangia capsule-like, composed of usually 3 sporangia, yellow when mature.
Distribution and occurrence: World: 3 species, tropical & subtropical regions. Australia: 2 species, all mainland States except S.A.
Text by Peter G. Wilson
Taxon concept:
| | Key to the species | |
| 1 | Aerial stems not flattened, ± circular to triangular in section, erect to somewhat pendent | Psilotum nudum |
| Aerial stems flattened, ± elliptic in section, pendent | Psilotum complanatum |
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