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Lycopodium funiculosum

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Identification
Lycopodium funiculosum Not on sheet [family LYCOPODIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Lycopodium dendroideum Michx. [family LYCOPODIACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Lycopodium obscurum L. [family LYCOPODIACEAE ] Verified by Wilce, J.H., 1962
Related name
  • Lycopodium obscurum
  • Lycopodium funiculosum
  • Lycopodium dendroideum

Flora

Entry for Lycopodium gnidioides L.f. [family LYCOPODIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 15, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Lycopodium gnidioides L.f. [family LYCOPODIACEAE], Suppl. Pl.: 448 (1781).—Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 326, t. 177 (1915). Type from Mauritius.
Lycopodium funiculosum Lam. [family LYCOPODIACEAE], Encycl. Méth., Bot. 3: 649 (1789). Type from S. Africa.
Plananthus gnidioides L.f. Beauv. [family LYCOPODIACEAE], Prodr. Aethéog.: 110 (1805). Type as for Lycopodium gnidioides.
Lepidotis funiculosa Lam. Beauv. [family LYCOPODIACEAE], tom. cit.: 108 (1805). Type as for Lycopodium funiculosum.
Lycopodium Schrad. [family LYCOPODIACEAE], in Göt. Gel. Anz. 1818: 920 (1818). Type from S. Africa.
Lycopodium ambiguum Schrad. [family LYCOPODIACEAE], loc. cit. Type from S. Africa.
Lycopodium pinifolium Kaulf. [family LYCOPODIACEAE], Enum. Fil.: 7 (1824) non Bl. (1828). Type from S. Africa.
Lycopodium strictum Bak. [family LYCOPODIACEAE], in Journ. of Bot. 20: 271 (1882). Type from Madagascar.
Lycopodium gnidioides var. strictum Bak. C. Chr. [family LYCOPODIACEAE], in Dansk Bot. Ark. 7: 190 (1932). Type from Madagascar.
Urostachys gnidioides L.f. Herter ex Nessel [family LYCOPODIACEAE], Bärlappgew.: 187 (1944). Type as for Lycopodium gnidioides.
Huperzia gnidioides L.f. Rothm. [family LYCOPODIACEAE], in Fedde, Repert. 54: 61 (1944). Type as above.
Information
Epiphytic or lithophytic. Stems up to 50 x 0.4 cm., erect, arching or pendulous, dichotomously branched. Leaves up to 1.4 x 0.3 cm., very narrowly oblong, coriaceous, acute to broadly acute, imbricate. Sporophylls up to 3 x 2 mm., much shorter than the foliage leaves, broadly ovate, acute, closely imbricate.
Habitat
Montane forest in shade
Altitude range
above 1750 m.
5895
1750
inferred only bottom
Distribution
Mozambique MS Gorongosa Mt., Gogogo Peak, 5.vii.1955, Schelpe 5515 (BM; BOL).Malawi N S. Vipva, Kawendama, 29.xi.1961, Chapman 1495 (SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chimanimani Mts., 23.ii.1957, Goodier 170 (BM; BOL; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa
Madagascar
Comoro and Mascarene Is.

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