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Lycopodiaceae Habit: Plant on ground (or other plants), creeping (to +- vine-like). Stem: branches few to many, forked often unequally, also branched laterally or not. Leaf: many, simple, +- alternate, spirally arranged, small, needle- or scale-like, 1-veined, few-toothed to generally entire, those subtending sporangia generally unlike others [or not], in distinct cones [or not]. Cone: terminal on erect stem, erect [or 0]. Sporangia: 1 in leaf axils; spores of 1 kind. Genera In Family: 4 genera, +- 400 species: worldwide, generally tropics. Jepson eFlora Author: Andy Murdock, Alan R. Smith & Thomas Lemieux Reference: Wagner & Beitel 1993 FNANM 2:18--37 Unabridged Reference: Ållgaard 1987 Opera Bot 92:153--178 Scientific Editor: Alan R. Smith, Thomas J. Rosatti. Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Key to Lycopodiaceae Previous taxon: Isoetes orcuttii Next taxon: Lycopodiella |