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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.
Lycopodium powder is a yellow-tan dust-like powder, consisting of the dry spores of clubmoss plants, or various fern relatives. When it is mixed with air, the spores are highly flammable and are used to create dust explosions as theatrical special effects.
Lycopodium lagopus, commonly known as one-cone club-moss, [5] is an arctic and subarctic species of plants in the genus Lycopodium in the clubmoss family. It is widespread in cold, northerly regions: Canada, Greenland , Russia, Scandinavia, and the northern United States including Alaska .
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 ...
Lycopodium clavatum is a spore-bearing vascular plant, growing mainly prostrate along the ground with stems up to 1 m (39 in) long; the stems are much branched, and densely clothed with small, spirally arranged microphyll leaves. The leaves are 3–5 mm long and 0.7–1 mm broad, tapered to a fine hair-like white point.
Lycopodium powder, the dried spores of the common clubmoss, was used in Victorian theater to produce flame-effects. A blown cloud of spores burned rapidly and brightly, but with little heat. A blown cloud of spores burned rapidly and brightly, but with little heat.
Lycopodium L. sensu Øllgaard (1987) Lycopodioideae is a subfamily in the family Lycopodiaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). [ 1 ] It is equivalent to a broad circumscription of the genus Lycopodium in other classifications.
Lycopodium japonicum is a common species of plant in the genus Lycopodium in the clubmoss family.It is widespread in China, Japan and countries of Southern Asia. It has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of sprains, strains and myasthenia, and research is ongoing into its efficacy. [3]