Lycopodium cernuum L.

Details

Name scientific

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

Preferred name

Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic.Serm.

Nomenclature

Authors

Original authors

Publication place

Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.

Year published

1753

Publication page

1103

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lycopodium cernuum L.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Lycopodium cernuum

Etymology

From the Latin cernuus (drooping), a reference to the habit of the strobili.

Typification

Lectotype (selected by Proctor 1977): “Habitat in Indiis”, no locality, collector or date, LINN-HL 1257.13!

Proctor, G.R. 1977: Pteridophyta. In: Howard, R.A. Flora of the Lesser Antilles. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Lycopodiopsida

Order

Lycopodiales

Family

Lycopodiaceae

Genus

Lycopodium

Species

cernuum

Subordinates

Descriptions

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

Lycopodium cernuum L.

Description

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.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Lycopodium cernuum L.

Lycopodium cernuum L.

Allan, H.H. (1961)

Collections

Determined name

Country

Geographic region

Indicative databased records

Lycopodium cernuum L.

New Zealand

South Auckland Land District

Notes

Note type

typification

Note text

Lectotype (selected by Proctor 1977): “Habitat in Indiis”, no locality, collector or date, LINN-HL 1257.13!

Note reference

Proctor, G.R. 1977: Pteridophyta. In: Howard, R.A. Flora of the Lesser Antilles. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Note type

Etymology

Note text

From the Latin cernuus (drooping), a reference to the habit of the strobili.

Metadata

Record id

43bee3d1-00fc-49d6-afe6-c5b34b873b6d

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Plants

Date added

1 January 2000

Date last updated

5 March 2007

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