Huperzia delavayi (Christ & Herter) Ching

Species

Pteridophytes > Lycopodiales > Lycopodiaceae > Huperzioideae > Huperzia

Characteristics

Plants terrestrial. Stem erect or ascending, 6-14 cm, ca. 2 mm in diam. at middle, together with leaves 0.7-1.2 cm wide, 2 or 3 times dichotomously branched, upper portion often with bulbils. Leaves dense, reflexed or attached at right angles with stem, lustrous, ovate-lanceolate, conspicuously contracted toward base, straight, 4-9 × 1.5-2 mm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, midrib indistinct, base subcuneate, decurrent, sessile, margin straight and not crispate, upper portion inconspicuously toothed, apex acute. Sporophylls homomorphic with trophophylls; sporangia slightly visible or not visible from outside of sporophylls, yellowish, reniform.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-11

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Distribution

Huperzia delavayi world distribution map, present in China, Myanmar, and Nepal

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17512190-1
WFO ID wfo-0001125418
COL ID 8LGLM
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Synonyms

Lycopodium delavayi Urostachys delavayi Huperzia delavayi