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Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic.Serm.

Staghorn clubmoss (en), Lycopodielle (fr)

Species

Pteridophytes > Lycopodiales > Lycopodiaceae > Lycopodielloideae > Lycopodiella

Characteristics

Main stems to 5 m or more long, creeping or looping over the ground, rooting at points of contact. Branchlet system usually 1 per loop, dendroid, erect, occasionally climbing, commonly 0.3–1 (–2) m high, much-branched, glabrous or hairy. Leaves spirally arranged to subwhorled, clustered, linear to narrowly triangular, acuminate, curved towards the shoot apex, 1.5–4.5 mm long, 0.2–1 mm wide, green to yellowish green. Strobili numerous, 5–15 mm long. Sporophylls imbricate, ovate, acuminate, pale yellow; margins ciliate.
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A fern. A plant which lies along the ground. It has long branching stems covered with small scale like leaves. The stem trailing along the ground forms root clusters. Side branches are erect. The branch tips turn down and have small cones which develop spores.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature height (meter) 0.6
Root system creeping-root
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Widespread and common on rainforest margins, open sclerophyll forest, road and railway cuttings, swamp margins and moist hillsides and cliff faces, usually in high light on oligotropic soils. On Norfolk Island grows in open areas in the forest (Green 1994: 550).
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Forest fringes, in young secondary forest, often in swamp margins, in grassland (including wet grassland), along roadsides and railways, on moist cliff-faces, hillsides and mountain slopes, up to elevations of 2,400 metres.
A tropical plant. It grows in warmer countries. It grows near moist stream banks between 1,000-1,980 m above sea level. In Swaziland it grows in the high veld.
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Soil humidity 3-5
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-11

Usage

Aboriginals boiled the plant in water to use the syrup for coughs (Pearson & Pearson 1992).
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The very young parts are cooked and used as a vegetable.
Uses environmental use food material medicinal social use
Edible fronds leaves
Therapeutic use Anodyne (unspecified), Beriberi (unspecified), Ache(Bones) (unspecified), Carminative (unspecified), Chest (unspecified), Cough (unspecified), Dermatosis (unspecified), Leg (unspecified), Numbness (unspecified), Skin (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Spasm (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified), Trauma (unspecified), Abscess (unspecified), Beri-Beri (unspecified), Rheumatism (unspecified), Asthma (unspecified), Myalgia (unspecified), Asthma (whole plant), Cough (whole plant), Nervous system diseases (whole plant)
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Cultivation

Plants grow from spores.
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Images

Habit

Lycopodiella cernua habit picture by Denis Bastianelli (cc-by-sa)
Lycopodiella cernua habit picture by Luiza pazete Luiza pazete (cc-by-sa)
Lycopodiella cernua habit picture by Pereira Jorge (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Lycopodiella cernua leaf picture by Paris B (cc-by-sa)
Lycopodiella cernua leaf picture by Paris B (cc-by-sa)
Lycopodiella cernua leaf picture by jaydeep lakkad (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Lycopodiella cernua fruit picture by Ramesh Ghildiyal (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Lycopodiella cernua world distribution map, present in Angola, Argentina, American Samoa, Australia, Burundi, Benin, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Barbados, Bhutan, Central African Republic, China, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Congo, Cook Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Micronesia (Federated States of), Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guadeloupe, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Grenada, Guatemala, French Guiana, Guam, Guyana, Honduras, Indonesia, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Liberia, Saint Lucia, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mexico, Mali, Myanmar, Northern Mariana Islands, Mozambique, Montserrat, Martinique, Mauritius, Malawi, Malaysia, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Nepal, New Zealand, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Portugal, Paraguay, Réunion, Rwanda, Sudan, Senegal, Singapore, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Solomon Islands, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, Sao Tome and Principe, Suriname, eSwatini, Seychelles, Syrian Arab Republic, Togo, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Taiwan, Province of China, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, Uruguay, United States of America, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1054587-2
WFO ID wfo-0001108730
COL ID 733BY
BDTFX ID 85767
INPN ID 446522
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Synonyms

Lycopodium sikkimense Lycopodium cernuum Lycopodium heeschii Palhinhaea cernua f. sikkimensis Lycopodium cernuum f. sikkimense Lycopodium boryanum Palhinhaea capillacea Palhinhaea lufengensis Palhinhaea cernua Palhinhaea brevibracteata Palhinhaea polycephala Lycopodium moritzii Lycopodium cernuum var. cernuum Lycopodium cernuum var. capillaceum Lycopodium cernuum var. panamense Lycopodium cernuum var. watsonianum Palhinhaea cernua var. sikkimensis Palhinhaea cernua f. ciliatomarginata Lepidotis cernua Lycopodiella cernua var. cernua Lycopodiella cernua var. caboverdeana Palhinhaea cernua var. lanceolata Palhinhaea cernua var. pendula Lycopodiella cernua
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