English: Clubmosses.
Clades:
Lycopodiales;
Lycopodiidae;
Lycopodianae; Pterodophya;
Plants.
Members: 1 genus, Phlegmarius; 300 species.
Region: pantropical.
Habitat: tropical forest; epiphytic.
Plant theoryPhlegmarioideae is new family in the
Plant theory. It is split off from
Huperziaceae as Field has shown. Phlegmarius is a big genus and is mostly tropical. This fits with
Subphase 5. In analysis it is shown to consist of two subgroups. This can indicate that it has to further split, for instance in
Phlegmarioideae and
Phlegmarioideae2.
BotanyFern; epiphytic.
Root: adventitious; emergence cortical.
Stem: protostelic; shoots isotomous, arising in a tuft; growth axis horizontal, dorsiventral; fertile shoots sessile; stele < stem diameter.
Leaves: eligulate; sporophylls pelate, deciduous; sporangial stalk present; sporophylls paleate, evergreen; mucilage duct in sporophyll absent.
Sporangia: sporangial wall cells thin, non-lignified, sinuate.
Reproduction: gametophyte subterrenean, germinate in the dark; gametophyte with paraphyses.
Spore: homosporous.
Spore: margins convex.
Bulbils absent.
Stages Remediesx
Phlegmariurus phlegmaria