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The Lycopodiaceae (class Lycopodiopsida, order Lycopodiales) are an old family of vascular plants, including all of the core clubmosses and firmosses, comprising 17 accepted genera [2] and about 500 known species. [3]
Lycopodium (from Ancient Greek lykos, wolf and podion, diminutive of pous, foot) [2] is a genus of clubmosses, also known as ground pines or creeping cedars, [3] in the family Lycopodiaceae. Two very different circumscriptions of the genus are in use.
The family Lycopodiaceae was first established in 1802. [4] Although other genera now placed within the family (in particular Huperzia, published in 1801 [5]) had been described, until the mid-1900s, Lycopodium was often the only genus recognized.
Diphasiastrum digitatum is known as groundcedar, running cedar or crowsfoot, along with other members of its genus, but the common name fan clubmoss can be used to refer to it specifically. It is the most common species of Diphasiastrum in North America.
The rank and name used for the taxon holding the extant lycophytes (and their closest extinct relatives) varies widely. Table 1 below shows some of the highest ranks that have been used. Systems may use taxa at a rank lower than the highest given in the table with the same circumscription; for example, a system that uses Lycopodiophyta as the ...
The family, Lycopodiaceae contains nearly 15 genera and about 375 species [3] Originally named by Linnaeus, [4] this species has since been reviewed by Raimond Cranfill. Foxtail clubmoss is the common name for Lycopodiella alopecuroides (L.) Cranfill.
Austrolycopodium magellanicum, synonym Lycopodium magellanicum, the Magellanic clubmoss, [2] is a species of vascular plant in the club moss family Lycopodiaceae. [1] The genus Austrolycopodium is accepted in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), [3] but not in other classifications which submerge the genus in Lycopodium.
Spinulum annotinum, synonym Lycopodium annotinum, known as interrupted club-moss, [1] or stiff clubmoss, [2] is a species of clubmoss native to forests of the colder parts of North America (Greenland, St. Pierre & Miquelon, all 10 provinces and all 3 territories of Canada, Alaska, and mountains of the contiguous United States), [3] as well as Asia (China, Russia, Japan, Korea, Nepal, Assam ...