Austrolycopodium magellanicum

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.[4]

Austrolycopodium magellanicum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Lycophytes
Class: Lycopodiopsida
Order: Lycopodiales
Family: Lycopodiaceae
Genus: Austrolycopodium
Species:
A. magellanicum
Binomial name
Austrolycopodium magellanicum
(P.Beauv.) Holub[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Lycopodium clavatum var. magellanicum (P.Beauv.) Hook.f.
  • Lycopodium magellanicum (P.Beauv.) Sw.
  • Lycopodium pichinchense Hook.
  • Lycopodium spurium Willd.
  • Lycopodium uranii Herter

The species grows in the mountains of Latin America from Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic south as far as Tierra del Fuego, as well as a number of islands in the antarctic and subantarctic oceans (Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Falkland Islands, Juan Fernández Islands, Marion Island, Prince Edward Islands, Iles Crozet, Iles Kerguelen).[5]

A number of natural products have been isolated from this plant, including magellanine, magellaninone, panticuline, acetyldihydrolycopodine, acetylfawcettiine, clavolonine (8b-hydroxylycopodine), deacetylfawcettiine, fawcettiine, lycopodine, lycodine, alpha-obscurine (2,3-dihydro-b-obscurine), and beta-obscurine.[6] Some of the molecules within this class are known inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase (AChE).[7]

References
  1. Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (November 2019). "Austrolycopodium magellanicum". Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. 8.11. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
  2. Burton, Robert; Croxall, John C. (2012). A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia. Princeton University Press. p. 176. ISBN 9780691156613.
  3. PPG I (2016). "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 54 (6): 563–603. doi:10.1111/jse.12229.
  4. Christenhusz, Maarten J.M. & Chase, Mark W. (2014). "Trends and concepts in fern classification". Annals of Botany. 113 (9): 571–594. doi:10.1093/aob/mct299. PMC 3936591. PMID 24532607.
  5. "Family Lycopodiaceae, genus Lycopodium; world species list". Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
  6. Isolation of Magellanine Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 1976, 54:(18) 2893-2899.
  7. Review of Lycopodium alkaloids Nat. Prod. Rep.,2004, 21, 752-772.


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