Club Mosses (Local & NZ)
Club moss, also called ground pine is the common name for plants in the family Lycopodiaceae, which contains the genera Huperzia (300 species), Lycopodiella (40 species), and Lycopodium (40 species.
Club mosses are evergreen herbs with needle like or scale like leaves and, often, cone like clusters of small leaves (strobili), each with a kidney-shaped spore capsule at its base. They have an underground sexual phase plant (one that produces gametes, or sex cells), alternates in the life cycle with the spore-producing plant.
Lycopodium fastigiatum
Lycopodium scariosum
Selaginella kraussiana (African clubmoss)
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