Lycopodiella

Lycopodiella
Lycopodiella inundata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Lycophytes
Class: Lycopodiopsida
Order: Lycopodiales
Family: Lycopodiaceae
Subfamily: Lycopodielloideae
Genus: Lycopodiella
Holub
Species

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Lycopodiella is a genus in the clubmoss family Lycopodiaceae. The genus members are commonly called bog clubmosses, describing their wetland habitat. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution,[1] with centers of diversity in the tropical New World and New Guinea. In the past, the genus was often incorporated within the related genus Lycopodium, but was segregated in 1964.[2] In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), Lycopodiella is placed in the subfamily Lycopodielloideae, along with three other genera. In this circumscription, the genus has about 15 species.[3] Other sources use a wider circumscription, in which the genus is equivalent to the Lycopodielloideae of PPG I, in which case about 40 species and hybrids are accepted.

  1. ^ Wikström, Niklas; Kendrick, Paul (2000). "Relationships of Lycopodium and Lycopodiella Based on Combined Plastid rbcL Gene and trnL Intron Sequence Data". Relationships of Lycopodium and Lycopodiella Based on Combined Plastid RBCL Gene and TRNL Intron Sequence Data. 25 (3): 496.
  2. ^ Gilman, Arthur (2004). Lycopodiella alopecuroides (L.) Cranfill Foxtail bog clubmoss. pp. i, 3.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference PPGI was invoked but never defined (see the help page).