Lycopodium

Lycopodium
Lycopodium clavatum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Lycophytes
Class: Lycopodiopsida
Order: Lycopodiales
Family: Lycopodiaceae
Subfamily: Lycopodioideae
Genus: Lycopodium
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Type species
Lycopodium clavatum
Species

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Lycopodium (from Greek lykos, wolf and podion, diminutive of pous, foot)[2] is a genus of clubmosses, also known as ground pines or creeping cedars,[3] in the family Lycopodiaceae. Two very different circumscriptions of the genus are in use. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), Lycopodium is one of nine genera in the subfamily Lycopodioideae, and has from nine to 15 species.[1][4] In other classifications, the genus is equivalent to the whole of the subfamily, since it includes all of the other genera. More than 40 species are accepted.[5]

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  2. ^ λύκος, πούς. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
  3. ^ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2008
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