Lycopodium L. Lycopodium Lycopodium, L.

3. Lycopodium L. View in CoL 2

Leaves arranged spirally or in whorls, flat, linear to lanceolate, appressed or deflexed. Sporophylls quite different from leaves, broadly ovate to broadly lanceolate, with scarious, toothed margins. Sporangia opening at the apex; spores markedly muricate-reticulate. Prothallus holosaprophytic, disciform or tuberous, without appendages.

1 Spikespedunculate; sporophyllswitha longwhitehairatthe apex; leaves acute, apically prolonged as a long white hair

3. clavatum 1 Spikessessile; sporophyllsacute; leavesacuteoracuminate

2 Leaves 5-10 mm, acute, regularly toothed; branches 10-15 mm wide 1. annotinum 2 Leaves3 -7mm, acuminate,entire,rarelywitha few teeth; branches 3-7 mm wide 2. dubium

1. L. annotinum L. View in CoL , Sp. Pl. 1103 (1753).

Stems procumbent, elongate, branched; branches 10-15 mm wide, ascending. Leaves 5- 10 mm, linear-lanceolate or linear, patent or deflexed, thin, acute, coarsely toothed, dull green. Spikes 1 - 5-3 cm, solitary, cylindrical, at the ends of erect branches; sporophylls acute. 2n = 68. Heaths, moors and mountain grassland. N. Europe, extending southwards in the mountains to the Pyrenees, N. Appennini and S. Carpathians. Au Be Br Bu Cz Da Fe Ga Ge He Ho Hs Hu It No Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W) Su.