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Lycopodium serpentinum Kunze

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Lycopodium serpentinum Kunze in Lehmann, Pl. Preiss. 2, 108 (1846)
Lycopodiella serpentina (Kunze) B.Øllg.

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Kunze
Kunze
Lehmann, J.G.C. 1846–1848: Plantae Preissianae. Vol. 2. Meissner, Hamburg.
1846
108
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Lycopodium serpentinum Kunze
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Lycopodium serpentinum
From the Latin serpentinus (snake-like), a reference to the flexuous and prostrate horizontal stem of this species.
Lectotype (selected by Brownsey et al. 2018): Albany, Plantagenet, [Western Australia], Oct. 1840, Herb. Preiss No. 1881, P 01219525! (see Øllgaard 1989)

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Lycopodiopsida
Lycopodiales
Lycopodiaceae
Lycopodium
serpentinum

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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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Lycopodium serpentinum Kunze
Lycopodium serpentinum Kunze
Allan, H.H. (1961)

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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.
typification
Lectotype (selected by Brownsey et al. 2018): Albany, Plantagenet, [Western Australia], Oct. 1840, Herb. Preiss No. 1881, P 01219525! (see Øllgaard 1989)
Brownsey, P.J.; Perrie, L.R.; Field, A.R. 2018: Taxonomic notes on the New Zealand flora: lectotypes in Isoetaceae and Lycopodiaceae. New Zealand Journal of Botany 56(4): 396–405.

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1 January 2000
9 January 2020
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