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Encyclopedia > Lycopodiaceae
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Lycopodiaceae (Clubmosses)
Lycopodium annotinum
Lycopodium annotinum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Lycopodiophyta
Class: Lycopodiopsida
Order: Lycopodiales
Family: Lycopodiaceae
Diphasiastrum
Lycopodiella
Lycopodium
Palhinhaea
Pseudolycopodiella

The Lycopodiaceae (class Lycopodiopsida, order Lycopodiales) is a family of primitive vascular plants, including all of the core clubmosses. These plants bear spores on specialized structures at the apex of a shoot; they resemble a tiny battle club, from which the common name derives. They are non-flowering and do not produce seeds. Download high resolution version (800x821, 162 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Lycopodiopsida - clubmosses Selaginellopsida - spikemosses Isoetopsida - quillworts The division Lycopodiophyta is a tracheophyte subdivision of the Kingdom Plantae that includes some of the most primitive of extant (living) vascular plants. ... Families Lycopodiaceae Huperziaceae The Class Lycopodiopsida includes the clubmosses. ... Families Lycopodiaceae Huperziaceae The Class Lycopodiopsida includes the clubmosses. ... In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a taxonomic grouping. ... Species See text Diphasiastrum is a genus of clubmosses in the plant family Lycopodiaceae. ... Species See text Lycopodiella is a genus in the clubmoss family Lycopodiaceae. ... Lycopodium is a genus of clubmosses, also known as ground pines, in the family Lycopodiaceae, a family of fern-allies (see Pteridophyta). ... Families Lycopodiaceae Huperziaceae The Class Lycopodiopsida includes the clubmosses. ... Families Lycopodiaceae Huperziaceae The Class Lycopodiopsida includes the clubmosses. ... Divisions Non-seed-bearing plants Equisetophyta Lycopodiophyta Psilotophyta Pteridophyta Superdivision Spermatophyta Pinophyta Cycadophyta Ginkgophyta Gnetophyta Magnoliophyta The vascular plants are those plants that have specialized cells for conducting water and sap within their tissues, including the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, but not mosses, algae, and the like (nonvascular... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Hercules fights the Lernaean Hydra with a club A club or cudgel is perhaps the simplest of all mêlée weapons. ... A seed is the ripened ovule of gymnosperm or angiosperm plants. ...


The genera Huperzia, Phlegmariurus and Phylloglossum, often included in this family in older texts, are here treated in the separate family Huperziaceae; they differ in producing spores in small lateral structures in the leaf axils. Species - Appalachian firmoss - Shining firmoss - Rock firmoss - Northern firmoss Firmosses are plants of the Lycophyte genus Huperzia. ... Species - Appalachian firmoss - Shining firmoss - Rock firmoss - Northern firmoss Firmosses are plants of the Lycophyte genus Huperzia. ... Binomial name Phylloglossum drummondii Kunze Phylloglossum is a genus in the clubmoss family Huperziaceae. ... Genera Huperzia - firmosses Phylloglossum The Family Huperziaceae is one of two families in the Order Lycopodiales, and contains only two extant genera: Huperzia, formerly included in Lycopodium, and Phylloglossum, formerly thought to be distantly related to Huperzia Categories: Lycopodiophyta ...


Uses

The spores have been used by violin makers for centuries as a pore filler. This filler is commercially available through Howard Core and Associates. A luthier is someone who is capable of crafting and repairing any of the many types of stringed instruments. ...


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Lycopodiaceae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (160 words)
The Lycopodiaceae (class Lycopodiopsida, order Lycopodiales) is a family of primitive vascular plants, including all of the core clubmosses.
These plants bear spores on specialized structures at the apex of a shoot; they resemble a tiny battle club, from which the common name derives.
Family description of Lycopodiaceae (follows a broad circumscription of the family, including Huperziaceae)
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