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Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg.

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Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg., Opera Bot. 92: 176 (1987)
Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg.
Øllgaard, B. 1987: A revised classification of Lycopodiaceae s. lat. Opera Botanica 92: 153–178.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Brownsey, P.J.; Smith-Dodsworth, J.C. (2000)

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(Kunze) B.Øllg.
Kunze
B.Øllg.
Øllgaard, B. 1987: A revised classification of Lycopodiaceae s. lat. Opera Botanica 92: 153–178.
1987
176
ICN
Lycopodium serpentinum Kunze
species
Lycopodiella serpentina
From the Latin serpentinus (snake-like), a reference to the flexuous and prostrate horizontal stem of this species.

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Lycopodiopsida
Lycopodiales
Lycopodiaceae
Lycopodiella
serpentina

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

Lycopodium serpentinum Kunze

Main stem prostrate, creeping and rooting, seldom more than 15 cm. long. Aerial branches rather distant, rigid, erect, up to 2 dm. long. Lvs of main stem uniform, dense, ascending, imbricate, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, c. 3 mm. long; lvs of aerial branches less dense, somewhat spreading. Strobili solitary, erect, up to 1dm. long, sts with sterile mid-region. Sporophylls deltoid, somewhat spreading, with long cusp.

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Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg.
Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2004)
Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg.
Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2009)
Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg.
Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg.
Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg.
Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg.
Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg.
Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg.
Øllgaard, B. (1987)
Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg.
Lycopodium serpentinum Kunze
Lycopodium serpentinum Kunze
Allan, H.H. (1961)

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Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
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Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
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Lycopodium serpentinum Kunze
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
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Etymology
From the Latin serpentinus (snake-like), a reference to the flexuous and prostrate horizontal stem of this species.

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06085476-91d3-48ec-936a-bca83d6de91f
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
14 June 2004
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