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Lycopodium cernuum L.

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Lycopodium cernuum L., Sp. Pl. 1103 (1753)

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L.
L.
1753
1103
ICN
Lycopodium cernuum L.
species
Lycopodium cernuum
From the Latin cernuus (drooping), a reference to the habit of the strobili.
Lectotype (selected by Proctor 1977): “Habitat in Indiis”, no locality, collector or date, LINN-HL 1257.13!

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Lycopodium cernuum L.

Main stems stout, branched, arching between rooting points, up to 5 m. long. Aerial branches erect, 3-12 dm. long, much-branched above. Lvs crowded, squarrose, sts incurved, c. 3 mm. long, narrow linear-subulate, decurrent, pale green, keeled. Strobili us. ∞, solitary, sessile on curved tips of branches, up to 15 mm. long. Sporophylls broad-ovate, acuminate to cuspidate, margins denticulate.

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Lycopodium cernuum L.
Lycopodium cernuum L.

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Lycopodium cernuum L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District

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typification
Lectotype (selected by Proctor 1977): “Habitat in Indiis”, no locality, collector or date, LINN-HL 1257.13!
Etymology
From the Latin cernuus (drooping), a reference to the habit of the strobili.

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1 January 2000
5 March 2007
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