Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes - Online edition

Pseudolycopodiella limosa

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Habit; Close up of frond showing sori. © Australian Tropical Herbarium

Habit. © Australian Tropical Herbarium

Family

Lycopodiaceae

Botanical name

Pseudolycopodiella limosa (Chinnock) A.R.Field

Link to Australian Plant Name Index for publication details and synonyms: https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/51347187

Common name

Slender clubmoss

Description

Main stems dichotomous, creeping, to at least 10 cm long, rooting at intervals and appressed to substratum. Leaves spirally arranged, densely crowded, absent from undersurface, erect, narrowly linear-triangular, 6–11 mm long, 1–1.8 mm wide at base, green. Strobiliferous branches erect, undivided; leaves strongly reduced, whorled or subwhorled, not overlapping; internodes 7–8 mm long. Sporophylls imbricate, spreading at maturity, ovate, acuminate; margins non-ciliate, lacerate.

Distribution

Endemic to Cape York Peninsula from Bamaga to Olive River in NE QLD.

Habit and habitat

Terrestrial in oligotrophic wetlands in open woodland or heath.

Citation of Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes

Field AR, Quinn CJ, Zich FA (2022) Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes. apps.lucidcentral.org/fern/text/intro/index.htm (accessed online INSERT DATE).

Field AR, Quinn CJ, Zich FA (2022) ‘Platycerium superbum’, in Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes. apps.lucidcentral.org/fern/text/entities/platycerium_superbum.htm (accessed online INSERT DATE).

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