Lycopodium Linnaeus 1753 (ground pine)

Lycopodiopsida - Lycopodiales - Lycopodiaceae

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum (exhibentes Plantas Rite Cognitas ad Genera Relatas cum Diferentiis Specificis, Nominibus Trivialibus, Synonymis Selectis, Locis Natalibus secundum Systema Sexuale digestas). 1-1200

Parent taxon: Lycopodioideae according to PPG. I 2016

See also Berry 1914, Chauhan 1991, Kershaw 1976, Knowlton 1919, Knowlton 1926 and Lakhanpal et al. 1976

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Lycopodium alopecuroides Lycopodium alpinum Lycopodium annotinum Lycopodium apodum Lycopodium bryopteris Lycopodium canaliculatum Lycopodium carolinianum Lycopodium cernuum Lycopodium clavatum Lycopodium complanatum Lycopodium cretaceum Lycopodium denticulatum Lycopodium flabellatum Lycopodium helventicum Lycopodium hesperium Lycopodium inundatum Lycopodium lesquereuxiana Lycopodium linifolium Lycopodium nudum Lycopodium obscurum Lycopodium ornithopodioides Lycopodium phlegmaria Lycopodium plumosum Lycopodium prominens Lycopodium rupestre Lycopodium sanguinolentum Lycopodium selaginoides Lycopodium selago

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Type: Lycopodium clavatum

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (21 collections), Canada (1: British Columbia), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), India (5), Peru (1), United States (2: Michigan)

• Pliocene of Panama (2), United States (1: Massachusetts)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Bolivia (1)

• Neogene of United States (1: Massachusetts)

• Miocene of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Costa Rica (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (6), Poland (1), United States (6: Idaho, Massachusetts, Nebraska)

• Oligocene of Puerto Rico (3)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Chile (1)

• Eocene of Argentina (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Missouri)

• Tertiary of India (1)

• Cretaceous of Australia (2), India (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (1: South Carolina)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Canada (1: Nunavut)

• Permian of India (1)

Total: 70 collections including 75 occurrences

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