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Lycopodium

RUNNING-PINE, CLUB-MOSS

Higher Taxonomy
Family: LycopodiaceaeView DescriptionDichotomous Key

Common Name: CLUB-MOSS FAMILY
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.
eFlora Treatment Author: Andy Murdock, Alan R. Smith & Thomas Lemieux
Scientific Editor: Alan R. Smith, Thomas J. Rosatti.
Lycopodium
Stem: sterile branched in > 1 plane; fertile erect.
Species In Genus: +- 40 species: worldwide. Etymology: (Greek: wolf foot, from branch tips)
Jepson eFlora Author: Andy Murdock, Alan R. Smith & Thomas Lemieux
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)

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Citation for this treatment: Andy Murdock, Alan R. Smith & Thomas Lemieux 2012, Lycopodium, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=9179, accessed on October 12, 2024.

Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on October 12, 2024.