Lycopodioideae

Lycopodioideae
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous–Recent
Dendrolycopodium dendroideum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Lycophytes
Class: Lycopodiopsida
Order: Lycopodiales
Family: Lycopodiaceae
Subfamily: Lycopodioideae
W.H.Wagner & Beitel ex B.Øllg.[1]
Genera

See text.

Synonyms[2]
  • Lycopodium L. sensu Øllgaard (1987)

Lycopodioideae is a subfamily in the family Lycopodiaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).[1] It is equivalent to a broad circumscription of the genus Lycopodium in other classifications. Like all lycophytes, members of the Lycopodioideae reproduce by spores. The oldest fossils of modern members of the subfamily date to the Early Cretaceous.[3]

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  3. ^ Herrera, Fabiany; Testo, Weston L.; Field, Ashley R.; Clark, Elizabeth G.; Herendeen, Patrick S.; Crane, Peter R.; Shi, Gongle (March 2022). "A permineralized Early Cretaceous lycopsid from China and the evolution of crown clubmosses". New Phytologist. 233 (5): 2310–2322. doi:10.1111/nph.17874. ISSN 0028-646X. PMID 34981832. S2CID 245670357.