Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic.Serm.
![Lycopodiella cernua. Plants growing amongst scrub on thermally heated soil. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie. [Image: 362N]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/362N/SysPortalThumb)
![Lycopodiella cernua. Branching aerial stem with immature green strobili. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Te Papa. [Image: 362P]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/362P/SysPortalThumb)
![Lycopodiella cernua. Over-mature aerial stem with brown strobili. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie. [Image: 362Q]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/362Q/SysPortalThumb)
![Lycopodiella cernua. Close up of aerial branches showing incurved leaves and immature, sessile, green strobili. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie. [Image: 362R]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/362R/SysPortalThumb)
![Lycopodiella cernua. Close up of aerial branches showing incurved leaves and mature, sessile, yellow strobili. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie. [Image: 362S]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/362S/SysPortalThumb)
![Lycopodiella cernua. Horizontal stems looping across the ground, giving rise to branched aerial stems between rooting points. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie. [Image: 362T]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/362T/SysPortalThumb)
![Lycopodiella cernua. Branching aerial stem with mature yellow strobili, sessile at the ends of branches and inclined downwards. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie. [Image: 362U]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/362U/SysPortalThumb)
![Lycopodiella cernua. Mature aerial stem and sessile yellow strobili. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie. [Image: 362V]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/362V/SysPortalThumb)
![CHR 633561. Creator: J. Dent. © Landcare Research 2014. [Image: 1RR8]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/1RR8/SysPortalThumb)
![CHR 640615. Creator: C. Graham. © Landcare Research 2016. [Image: 2B9T]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/2B9T/SysPortalThumb)
![Lycopodiella cernua. Plants growing amongst scrub on thermally heated soil. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie. [Image: 362N]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/362N/SysPortalPreview)
![Lycopodiella cernua. Branching aerial stem with immature green strobili. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Te Papa. [Image: 362P]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/362P/SysPortalPreview)
![Lycopodiella cernua. Over-mature aerial stem with brown strobili. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie. [Image: 362Q]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/362Q/SysPortalPreview)
![Lycopodiella cernua. Close up of aerial branches showing incurved leaves and immature, sessile, green strobili. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie. [Image: 362R]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/362R/SysPortalPreview)
![Lycopodiella cernua. Close up of aerial branches showing incurved leaves and mature, sessile, yellow strobili. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie. [Image: 362S]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/362S/SysPortalPreview)
![Lycopodiella cernua. Horizontal stems looping across the ground, giving rise to branched aerial stems between rooting points. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie. [Image: 362T]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/362T/SysPortalPreview)
![Lycopodiella cernua. Branching aerial stem with mature yellow strobili, sessile at the ends of branches and inclined downwards. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie. [Image: 362U]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/362U/SysPortalPreview)
![Lycopodiella cernua. Mature aerial stem and sessile yellow strobili. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie. [Image: 362V]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/362V/SysPortalPreview)
![CHR 633561. Creator: J. Dent. © Landcare Research 2014. [Image: 1RR8]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/1RR8/SysPortalPreview)
![CHR 640615. Creator: C. Graham. © Landcare Research 2016. [Image: 2B9T]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/2B9T/SysPortalPreview)
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Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic.Serm., Webbia 23: 166 (1968)
Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic.Serm.
Biostatus
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Nomenclature
Pic.Serm.
L.
(L.) Pic.Serm.
1968
166
ICN
species
Lycopodiella cernua
Classification
Vernacular names
Synonyms
Descriptions
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.
Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic.Serm.
2n = c. 200
Taxonomic concepts
Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic.Serm.
Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic.Serm.
Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic.Serm.
Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic.Serm.
Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic.Serm.
Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic.Serm.
Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic.Serm.
Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic.Serm.
Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic.Serm.
Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic.Serm.
Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic.Serm.
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Notes
Etymology
From the Latin cernuus (drooping), a reference to the habit of the strobili.
Metadata
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scientific name
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1 January 2000
8 January 2020
