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Lycopodium annotinum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Lycopodiophyta Class: Lycopodiopsida Order: Lycopodiales Family: Lycopodiaceae Genus: Lycopodium

Lycopodium is a genus of clubmosses, also known as ground pines, in the family Lycopodiaceae, a family of fern-allies (see Pteridophyta). They are flowerless, vascular, terrestrial or epiphytic plants, with widely-branched, erect, prostrate or creeping stems, with small, simple, needle-like or scale-like leaves that cover the stem and branches thickly. The fertile leaves are arranged in cone-like strobilli. Specialized leaves (sporophylls) bear reniform spore-cases (sporangia) in the axils, which contain spores of one kind only. These club-shaped capsules give the genus its name. 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. ... Genera Diphasiastrum Lycopodiella Lycopodium The Family Lycopodiaceae (class Lycopodiopsida, order Lycopodiales) includes all of the core clubmosses. ... In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a grouping in the classification of living organisms having one or more related and morphologically similar species. ... Families Lycopodiaceae Huperziaceae The Class Lycopodiopsida includes the clubmosses. ... Genera Diphasiastrum Lycopodiella Lycopodium The Family Lycopodiaceae (class Lycopodiopsida, order Lycopodiales) includes all of the core clubmosses. ... Fern ally is a general term covering a somewhat diverse group of vascular plants that are not flowering plants and not true ferns. ... Classes Marattiopsida Osmundopsida Gleicheniopsida Pteridopsida A fern, or pteridophyte, is any one of a group of some twenty thousand species of plants classified in the Division Pteridophyta, formerly known as Filicophyta. ... California Poppies in flower Flower (Latin flos, floris; French fleur), a term popularly used for the bloom or blossom of a plant, is the reproductive structure of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ... 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... In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ... The term spore has several different meanings in biology. ... A sporangium (pl. ...

Lycopods reproduce sexually by spores. The plant has an underground sexual phase that produces gametes, and this alternates in the life cycle with the spore-producing plant. The prothallium developed from the spore is a subterranean mass of tissue of considerable size and bears both the male and female organs (antheridium and archegonia). Gametes (in Greek: γαμέτες) —also known as sex cells, or spores—are the specialized germ cells that come together during fertilization (conception) in organisms that reproduce sexually. ... Diagram of antheridium anatomy An antheridium (plural: antheridia) is a structure or organ of the gametophyte phase of certain plants producing and containing the spermatids or male gametes. ... An archegonium (pl: archegonia) (from the Greek arche = beginning and gonos = born) is a multicellular structure or organ of the gametophyte phase of certain plants producing and containing the ovum or female gamete. ...

There is a total of approximately 200 species, with 37 species widely distributed in temperate and tropical climates, though they are confined to mountains in the tropics. Mount McKinley in Alaska has one of the largest visible base-to-summit elevation differences anywhere A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ...

Species

• Lycopodium aberdaricum (central and southern Africa)
• Lycopodium alboffii (southernmost South America and the Falkland Islands)
• Lycopodium alticola (southwest China)
• Lycopodium annotinum (Interrupted Clubmoss; circumpolar north temperate)
• Lycopodium assurgens (Brazil (Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina))
• Lycopodium casuarinoides (southeast Asia (Japan to Bhutan and Borneo))
• Lycopodium centrochinense (east Asia (central China to India and the Philippines)
• Lypocodium cernuum creeping club moss (lowland mixed forest) — found along bush margins or disturbed ground; height approximately 400 mm
• Lycopodium clavatum (Stag's-horn Clubmoss; subcosmopolitan, see separate page for details)
• Lycopodium confertum (southern South America and the Falkland Islands)
• Lycopodium dendroideum (northern North America)
• Lycopodium deuterodensum, tree club moss (eastern Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand) — has appressed leaves; height approximately 600 mm
• Lycopodium diaphanum (Tristan da Cunha)
• Lycopodium dubium (cold temperate and subarctic Europe and Asia; treated as a synonym of L. annotinum by some authors)
• Lycopodium fastigiatum (southeastern Australia, New Zealand)
• Lycopodium gayanum (south-central Chile and adjacent westernmost Argentina)
• Lycopodium hickeyi (northeastern North America)
• Lycopodium hygrophilum (New Guinea)
• Lycopodium interjectum (southwest China (Sichuan))
• Lycopodium japonicum (eastern Asia (Japan west and south to India and Sri Lanka))
• Lycopodium juniperoideum (northeast Asia (central Siberia southeast to Taiwan))
• Lycopodium jussiaei (northern South America, Caribbean)
• Lycopodium lagopus (circumpolar arctic and subarctic)
• Lypocodium lucidulum, shining club moss (North America) — occurs in wet woods and among rocks; has no distinct strobili; bears its spore capsules at the bases of leaves scattered along the branches
• Lycopodium magellanicum (South and Central America (Andes), southern Atlantic Ocean and southern Indian Ocean islands)
• Lycopodium minchegense (southeast China (Fujian))
• Lycopodium obscurum (northeast North America, northeast Asia)
• Lycopodium paniculatum (southern South America (Andes))
• Lycopodium papuanum (New Guinea)
• Lycopodium pullei (New Guinea)
• Lycopodium scariosum (southeastern Australia, New Zealand, Borneo (Mount Kinabalu))
• Lycopodium simulans (southwest China (Yunnan))
• Lycopodium spectabile (Java)
• Lycopodium subarcticum (northeast Siberia)
• Lycopodium taliense (southwest China (Yunnan))
• Lycopodium venustulum (Hawaii, Western Samoa, Society Islands)
• Lycopodium vestitum (northwest South America (Andes))
• Lycopodium volubile, climbing club moss (southwest Pacific Ocean islands (New Zealand north to Java), Australia (Queensland)) — found along bush margins and disturbed ground; has a creeping habit and can climb up vegetation
• Lycopodium zonatum (southeast Tibet)

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Uses

The term Lycopodium is also used to describe the yellowish, powdery spores of certain club mosses, especially Lycopodium clavatum, used in the past in fireworks and explosives and as a covering for pills. The Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House illuminated under New Years Eve Fireworks 2005 A fireworks event (also called a fireworks display or fireworks show) is a spectacular display of the effects produced by firework devices on various occasions. ... This article is concerned solely with chemical explosives. ... Look up Pill on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Pill can refer to: A pharmacological tablet. ...

Links

• Species list (takes a broad view of the genus, including the species here separated in the genus Diphasiastrum)
• Burning Lycopodium Powder: Simulating a Grain Elevator Explosion by Kevin A. Boudreaux