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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 complanatum var. tristachyum (Pursh) Domin Diphasiastrum tristachyum , commonly known as blue clubmoss , blue ground-cedar , ground pine , deep-rooted running-pine or ground cedar , is a North American and Eurasian species of clubmoss .
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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.
The species was first described in 1807 by Jacques Labillardière, as Lycopodium densum. However, the name had already been used for a different species, so this name is illegitimate. [2] Hence when Werner Rothmaler in 1944 placed the species in the genus Lepidotis as Lepidotis densa, this was the first legitimate use of the epithet. [8]
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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]