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Lycopodium deuterodensum Herter

Species

Pteridophytes > Lycopodiales > Lycopodiaceae > Lycopodioideae > Lycopodium

Characteristics

Rhizome creeping, to 3 m long, clothed in slightly spreading scale leaves. Branchlet systems erect, 10–100 cm tall. Leaves spiral to subwhorled, imbricate, appressed or spreading, adnate, dimorphic, green to yellowish green. Leaves of sterile branchlets linear-lanceolate, attenuate, 2–4.5 mm long, spreading. Leaves of sporogenous branchlets ovate-lanceolate, attenuate, 1–2.5 mm long; margins membranous, translucent, ciliate around the base. Leaves of central axis (sporogenous and sterile) similar to those on sterile branchlets, but appressed, 4.5–6 mm long. Strobili terminal on ultimate branchlets, 1–3.5 cm long, solitary. Sporophylls imbricate, acute; margins membranous, fimbriate.
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Rhizome up to 3 m. long, branched. Aerial branches rigid, erect, much branched above, 3 dm.-1 m. long, sts lianoid and up to 3 m. long and scantily branched. Lvs of three forms, a branch us. bearing one form only: (a) erect, densely imbricate, appressed, 1-2.5 mm. long, shortly aristate (the commonest form); (b) squarrose, incurved at tips, 2-3 mm. long, long-aristate, less densely placed; (c) intermediate between (a) and (b). Strobili. solitary, terminal, ∞, erect, up to 3 cm. long. Sporophylls close-set, broad-ovate, acute, spreading when old, margins scarious, jagged.
Life form perennial
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Growth support climber
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality monoecy
Pollination hydrogamy
Spread anemochory
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Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 1.0
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Terrestrial, in bright-light damp or swampy situations such as wetland and lake margins, usually in sclerophyll woodland, open forest, heathland or margins of rainforest.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Images

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Distribution

Lycopodium deuterodensum world distribution map, present in Australia and New Zealand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:131665-3
WFO ID wfo-0001119817
COL ID 6R3C5
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 671167
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Synonyms

Lycopodium deuterodensum Pseudolycopodium densum Lepidotis densa
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