Author:
Qjure
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-422.10.00
Lycopodiales
Name: Lycopodiales.
English: Clubmosses.
Botany: 1 genus, Isoëtes; ± 150 species; cosmopolitan; rare; aquatic or semi-aquatic; leaves slender and broadens downward to a swollen base, in clusters; root, a corm, bulb-like, underground; heterosporous; many extinct and fossil species, from Carboniferous and Triassic era.
Subphases
3. Lycopodiaceae: Lycopodium, Lycopodiella; spore-bearing structures in terminal club-like structure; basal chromosome count n3, 34.
4. Huperziaceae: Huperzia; Phlegmariurus; Phylloglossum; Firmosses; Fir clubmosses; 3 genera: Huperzia; Phlegmariurus; Phylloglossum; erect; spore-bearing structures in the axils of unmodified leaves, basal chromosome count 67.
Taxonomy
Lycopodiales is an Order in Lycopodiopsida.
In the Plant theory Lycopodiales is the only Order in the Class Lycopodiidae.
Plant theory
There is too little information to classify the Lycopodiales more precisely. Probably Lycopodiaceae has to be split in its Subfamilies.
Genera
Subfamily Lycopodielloideae
◦ Lateristachys
◦ Lycopodiella
◦ Palhinhaea
◦ Pseudolycopodiella
Subfamily Lycopodioideae
◦ Austrolycopodium
◦ Dendrolycopodium
◦ Diphasiastrum
◦ Diphasium
◦ Lycopodiastrum
◦ Lycopodium
◦ Pseudodiphasium
◦ Pseudolycopodium
◦ Spinulum
Subfamily Huperzioideae
◦ Huperzia
◦ Phlegmariurus
◦ Phylloglossum