Pteridophyta: Lycopodiales
Lycopodiaceae
- Clubmoss family
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Pteridophyta Flora Zambesiaca
Description of the family
Epiphytic, lithophytic or terrestrial perennials. Stems erect, creeping or pendulous, sometimes elongated, dichotomously branched, bearing a few freshly dichotomously branched roots in a basal tuft, or irregularly along a creeping main stem. Leaves herbaceous to coriaceous, simple, spirally arranged or in irregular whorls with a single vein and without ligules. Sporophylls uniform, scale-like or leaf-like, sometimes similar to the foliage leaves; at other times arranged in cones (strobili). Sporangia borne in the axils of the sporophylls, solitary, 1-locular. Worldwide: A family with a near cosmopolitan distribution, 4 genera and c. 400 species. Zimbabwe: 3 genera and 10 taxa. |
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
(2023).
Flora of Zimbabwe: Family page: Lycopodiaceae. https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/family.php?family_id=126, retrieved 5 October 2023
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