Lycopodium

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Lycopodium is a genus of clubmosses in the family Lycopodiaceae, a family of fern-allies (see Pteridophyta). They are flowerless plants, with widely-branched, erect, prostrate or creeping stems, with small simple leaves that cover the stem and branches thickly. The fertile leaves are arranged in cones and bear spore-cases (sporangia) in their axils containing spores of one kind only. The prothallium developed from the spore is a subterranean mass of tissue of considerable size and bears both the male and female organs (antheridium and archegonia).

Related Topics:
Genus - Clubmoss - Lycopodiaceae - Fern-allies - Pteridophyta - Flower - Plant - Leaves - Spore - Sporangia - Antheridium - Archegonia

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There are 37 species widely distributed in temperate and tropical climates, though confined to mountains in the tropics.

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• Lycopodium aberdaricum (central and southern Africa)
• Lycopodium alboffii (southernmost South America and the Falkland Islands)
• Lycopodium alticola (southwest China)
• Lycopodium annotinum (Interrupted Clubmoss; circumpolar north temperate)
• Lycopodium assurgens (Brazil (Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina))
• Lycopodium casuarinoides (southeast Asia (Japan to Bhutan and Borneo))
• Lycopodium centrochinense (east Asia (central China to India and the Philippines)
• Lycopodium clavatum (Stag's-horn Clubmoss; subcosmopolitan, see separate page for details)
• Lycopodium confertum (southern South America and the Falkland Islands)
• Lycopodium dendroideum (northern North America)
• Lycopodium deuterodensum (eastern Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand)
• Lycopodium diaphanum (Tristan da Cunha)
• Lycopodium dubium (cold temperate and subarctic Europe and Asia; treated as a synonym of L. annotinum by some authors)
• Lycopodium fastigiatum (southeastern Australia, New Zealand)
• Lycopodium gayanum (south-central Chile and adjacent westernmost Argentina)
• Lycopodium hickeyi (northeastern North America)
• Lycopodium hygrophilum (New Guinea)
• Lycopodium interjectum (southwest China (Sichuan))
• Lycopodium japonicum (eastern Asia (Japan west and south to India and Sri Lanka))
• Lycopodium juniperoideum (northeast Asia (central Siberia southeast to Taiwan))
• Lycopodium jussiaei (northern South America, Caribbean)
• Lycopodium lagopus (circumpolar arctic and subarctic)
• Lycopodium magellanicum (South and Central America (Andes), southern Atlantic Ocean and southern Indian Ocean islands)
• Lycopodium minchegense (southeast China (Fujian))
• Lycopodium obscurum (northeast North America, northeast Asia)
• Lycopodium paniculatum (southern South America (Andes))
• Lycopodium papuanum (New Guinea)
• Lycopodium pullei (New Guinea)
• Lycopodium scariosum (southeastern Australia, New Zealand, Borneo (Mount Kinabalu))
• Lycopodium simulans (southwest China (Yunnan))
• Lycopodium spectabile (Java)
• Lycopodium subarcticum (northeast Siberia)
• Lycopodium taliense (southwest China (Yunnan))
• Lycopodium venustulum (Hawaii, Western Samoa, Society Islands)
• Lycopodium vestitum (northwest South America (Andes))
• Lycopodium volubile (southwest Pacific Ocean islands (New Zealand north to Java), Australia (Queensland))
• Lycopodium zonatum (southeast Tibet)
 
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