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NZ Plants
Lycopodiella cernua
Clubmoss family: Lycopodiaceae
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Horizontal stem with erect branches
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Sterile aerial stem, branch arrangement
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Growing branch tips
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Fertile aerial stem with cones
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Pendant cones
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Cone
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Lycopodiella cernua is a terrestrial clubmoss with extensive branching, horizontal stems that arch across the ground. Where stems touch the soil roots are formed. Erect branches are formed between rooting points and have sterile, spirally arranged, incurved and linear leaves that are all the same size and shape. Branch tips are curled over and when fertile, form cones. Formerly known as Lycopodium cernuum.
Found throughout New Zealand in coastal to subalpine locations.
0Vegetative characteristics |
Fertile stem and sporangia |
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Plant form: terrestrial plants up to 50 cm |
Stem appearance: differentiated into pendulous cones up to 5-15 mm long |
Leaf arrangement: singly in a spiral along the stem; curved toward shoot tip |
Sporangium location: on upper surface of cone sporophyll |
Leaf shape: linear, pointed at tip |
Sporangium position: at base of cone sporophyll |
Leaf size: up to 50 mm |
Sporangia distribution: one per cone sporophyll |
Leaf surface: smooth, stiff |
Sporangium covering: 0 |