Huperzia tibetica (Ching) Ching

Species

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Characteristics

Plants terrestrial. Stem erect or ascending, 2-10 cm, 1-3 mm in diam. at middle, together with leaves 5-8 mm wide, 1-3 times dichotomously branched, upper portion often with bulbils. Leaves sparse, or dense on some small individuals, angled upward or attached at right angles with stem, lustrous, lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, nearly as wide at base as middle, oblique upward, 2-5 mm, (0.8-)1-1.2 mm wide at middle, leathery to papery, abaxially arc-shaped, both surfaces glabrous, midrib indistinct, base truncate, decurrent, sessile, margin involute, straight and not crispate, entire, apex acute. Sporophylls homomorphic with trophophylls; sporangia not visible or visible on both sides of sporophylls, yellowish, reniform.
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Growth form herb
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Distribution

Huperzia tibetica world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17512300-1
WFO ID wfo-0001125426
COL ID 6MGZ2
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Synonyms

Lycopodium tibeticum Huperzia tibetica