Lycopodium L.
Descripción
Plants trailing on the ground; horizontal stems long-creeping with scattered upright shoots; leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, appressed, ascending, or spreading, in 6–8 ranks or scale-like reduced leaves in four ranks, monomorphic on round branches or dimorphic on flattened branches; leaf margins entire; gemmiferous branchlets absent; strobili single and sessile or multiple and pedunculate, peduncles leafy; sporangia reniform in axils of sporophylls aggregated in strobili; spores reticulate; gametophytes nonphotosynthetic, subterranean, flat and irregularly buttonshaped or carrot-shaped; x=23, 34 (USA).A
Forma de vida
TerrestreA
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Discusión taxonómica
Lycopodium s.l., as used by most previous authors (e.g., Smith, 1981, and Mickel & Beitel, 1988) is here treated as comprising three genera: Lycopodium, Lycopodiella., and Huperzia., but has been broken into seven to 14 genera by some other authors (e.g., Wagner & Beitel, 1992, 1993). For further discussion of relationships, see references under Huperzia.A