Lycopodiella inundata

Lycopodiella inundata

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Scientific classification
Division:Lycopodiophyta
Class:Lycopodiopsida
Order:Lycopodiales
Family:Lycopodiaceae
Genus:Lycopodiella
Species: L. inundata
Binomial name
Lycopodiella inundata
Synonyms

Lycopodium inundatum L.

Lycopodiella inundata is a species of club moss known by the common names inundated club moss,[1] marsh clubmoss[2] and northern bog club moss. It has a circumpolar and circumboreal distribution, occurring throughout the northern Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic to montane temperate regions in Eurasia and North America. It grows in wet habitat, such as bogs, ponds, moist spots on the tundra, and longstanding borrow pits. It is a small plant forming patches on the ground, its leafy sterile stems branching and lying horizontal along the ground and fertile conebearing stems erect a few centimeters high. The leaves are curving, green, narrow, and sharply pointed, measuring a few millimeters long.

References

  1. ↑ "Lycopodiella inundata". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "BSBI List 2007". Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-01-25. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  • Media related to Lycopodiella inundata at Wikimedia Commons
  • Jepson Manual Treatment
  • "Lycopodiella inundata". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA.
  • Rook Profile
  • Wagner Jr., Warren H.; Beitel, Joseph M. (1993). "Lycopodiella inundata". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee. Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). 2. New York and Oxford – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  • Lycopodiella inundata in the CalPhotos Photo Database, University of California, Berkeley


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