Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
done
Chapter:
422.10.00
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.
Taxonomy
Lycopodiales is an Order in Lycopodiopsida.
In the Plant theory Lycopodiales is the only Order in the Class Lycopodiidae.
Subphases
1. Isoetaceae: Isoetes
3. Lycopodiaceae: Lycopodium, Lycopodiella
4. Huperziaceae: Huperzia; Phlegmariurus; Phylloglossum.
5. Selaginellaceae: Selaginella
Families
1. Isoetaceae: 1 genus, Isoetes; 140 species; aquatics.
3. Lycopodiaceae: 2 genera: Lycopodium, Lycopodiella; spore-bearing structures in terminal club-like structure; basal chromosome count n3, 34.
4. Huperziaceae: Firmosses; Fir clubmosses; 3 genera: Huperzia; Phlegmariurus; Phylloglossum; erect; spore-bearing structures in the axils of unmodified leaves, basal chromosome count 67.
5. Selaginellaceae: Selaginella
Introduction
The conflict is between being oneself and able to survive at one hand and finding a place in the community. It is the transition of childhood to adulthood and having to become someone in the community.
Mind
Anxious, shy, timid.
Timid towards superiors, bossy towards inferiors.
Fear: crowds, people; aggression.