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Lycopodiopsida is a class of vascular plants also known as lycopsids, [1] lycopods, or lycophytes. Members of the class are also called clubmosses , firmosses , spikemosses and quillworts . They have dichotomously branching stems bearing simple leaves called microphylls and reproduce by means of spores borne in sporangia on the sides of the ...
The lycophytes, when broadly circumscribed, ... Lycophytes reproduce by spores and have alternation of generations in which (like other vascular plants) ...
The spores of Lycopodium species are harvested and are sold as lycopodium powder. Lycopodium sp. herb has been used in the traditional Austrian medicine internally as tea or externally as compresses for treatment of disorders of the locomotor system, skin, liver and bile, kidneys and urinary tract, infections, rheumatism, and gout, [ 12 ...
The powder consists of the dry spores of clubmoss plants, or various fern relatives principally in the genera Lycopodium and Diphasiastrum.The preferred source species are Lycopodium clavatum (stag's horn clubmoss) and Diphasiastrum digitatum (common groundcedar), because these widespread and often locally abundant species are both prolific in their spore production and easy to collect.
By comparison "lycopod" or lycophyte (club moss) means wolf-plant. The term "fern ally" included under Pteridophyta generally refers to vascular spore-bearing plants that are not ferns, including lycopods, horsetails, whisk ferns and water ferns (Marsileaceae, Salviniaceae and Ceratopteris). This is not a natural grouping but rather a ...
D. obscurum reproduces sexually via spores and also vegetatively, through its rhizome. [10] The gametophyte of D. obscurum is disc shaped prothallus, [11] measuring an average of 1.5 cm (0.6 inches) in diameter. [12] It closely resembles other gametophytes of Lycopodium and related genera, so it cannot be identified by gametophyte alone.
Most non-vascular plants, as well as many lycophytes and most ferns, are homosporous (only one kind of spore is produced). Some lycophytes, such as the Selaginellaceae and Isoetaceae, [7]: 7 the extinct Lepidodendrales, [8] and ferns, such as the Marsileaceae and Salviniaceae are heterosporous (two kinds of spores are produced).
Lycophytes, where sporophylls may be aggregated into strobili (Selaginella and some Lycopodium and related genera) or distributed singly among sterile leaves . Sporangia are borne in the axil or on the adaxial surface of the sporophyll.