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NZ Plants
Lycopodium fastigiatum - alpine clubmoss, mountain clubmoss
Clubmoss family: Lycopodiaceae
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Erect, aerial stem
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Stem with leaves
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Cones
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Plant from a high-alpine area
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High-alpine plant, cones
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Lycopodium fastigiatum is a terrestrial clubmoss with a creeping stem forming rigid, erect branches. Leaves are spirally arranged and are of one size and shape being narrow, inward curving and with tapering tips. Aerial shoots form erect cones at the ends of branches.
Found on the upper half of the North Island in coastal to lowland forest and scrub and on the Chatham Islands.
Vegetative characteristics |
Fertile stem and sporangia |
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Plant form: terrestrial plants up to 40 cm; |
Stem appearance: differentiated into terminal erect cones up to 7 cm, solitary or in groups |
Leaf arrangement: singly in a spiral along the stem |
Sporangium location: on upper surface of cone sporophyll |
Leaf shape: linear, inward curving, pointed at tip |
Sporangium position: at base of cone sporophyll |
Leaf size: up to 5 mm |
Sporangia distribution: one per cone sporophyll |
Leaf surface: smooth, stiff |
Sporangium covering: 0 |