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Botanical Family · Lycopodiales

Lycopodiaceae

The Club Moss Family

2 speciesOrder Lycopodiales1+ well-known plants

The Lycopodiaceae family (The Club Moss Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Lycopodiales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 2 species. Its members are predominantly herbs.

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Representative LYCOPODIACEAE specimen
Representative specimen · Lycopodiaceae
Key pattern

Small, moss-like herbs with dense, tightly overlapping scale-like leaves covering trailing or upright branching stems; spores form in small, usually uniform kidney-shaped structures clustered at the base of each leaf or grouped into a narrow, cone-like spike at the branch tip.

Unlike its relative the spikemoss family, this family produces only one uniform spore type rather than two different sizes — a key difference despite the very similar moss-like appearance of both groups.

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Key TraitWhat single feature best distinguishes it?
Found in the Nilgiri hills, moss-like club moss
Produces small plantlets along the stem

Typical leaf characters

  • ArrangementVariable
  • TypeVariable
  • MarginVariable
  • VenationVariable

Characters typical of the family — individual species can vary.

Notable members

WāWae‘IoleHuperzia phyllantha

All 2 species in LYCOPODIACEAE

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