Lycopodium deuterodensum Herter

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Name scientific

Lycopodium deuterodensum Herter, Index Lycopod. 15 (1949)

Preferred name

Lycopodium deuterodensum Herter

Taxonomy reference

Brownsey, P.J.; Given, D.R.; Lovis, J.D. 1985: A revised classification of New Zealand pteridophytes with a synonymic checklist of species. New Zealand Journal of Botany 23(3): 431–489.

Linked name

Lycopodium deuterodensum Herter

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Herter

Authors

Herter

Publication place

Herter, W.G.F. 1949: Index Lycopodiorum. Herbarium Herter, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Year published

1949

Publication page

Nomenclatural status

replacement name

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lycopodium deuterodensum Herter

Based on

Lycopodium densum Labill.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Lycopodium deuterodensum

Etymology

From the Latin deuter- (second) and densum (compact, condensed), an indication that deuterodensum is a replacement name for Labillardière’s original epithet densum, which reflected the habit of the species.

Typification

Lectotype (designated by Øllgaard 1989): Terra Van Diemen [Tasmania], Herb. Webbianum ex Herb. Labillardière, FI 004231 (!online)

Øllgaard, B. 1989: Index of the Lycopodiaceae. Biologiske Skrifter 34: 1–135.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Lycopodiopsida

Order

Lycopodiales

Family

Lycopodiaceae

Genus

Lycopodium

Species

deuterodensum

Vernacular names

Language of use: Māori

Synonyms

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Lycopodium deuterodensum Herter

Description

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.