Lycopodiaceae

Lycopodiaceae (Clubmosses)
Spinulum annotinum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Lycophytes
Class: Lycopodiopsida
Order: Lycopodiales
Family: Lycopodiaceae
P.Beauv. ex Mirb. 1802[1]
Genera

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The Lycopodiaceae (class Lycopodiopsida, order Lycopodiales) are an old family of vascular plants, including all of the core clubmosses and firmosses, comprising 16 accepted genera[2] and about 400 known species.[3] This family originated about 380 million years ago in the early Devonian, though the diversity within the family has been much more recent.[4] "Wolf foot" is another common name for this family due to the resemblance of either the roots or branch tips to a wolf's paw.[5]

  1. ^ James L. Reveal, Indices Nominum Supragenericorum Plantarum Vascularium
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  4. ^ Judd; et al. (2015). Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic Approach. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.
  5. ^ "Lycopodiaceae". www.flora.dempstercountry.org. Retrieved 2017-12-20.