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Austrolycopodium erectum

Austrolycopodium erectum is a club moss from South America (Bolivia, Chile and Argentina) in the family Lycopodiaceae. It is a non-flowering spore plant rarely grown in gardens, so practical care is largely unrecorded.

Family
Lycopodiaceae (Lycopodi family)
Light
Part shade
Soil
Acidic, humus-rich, moist mix
How easy
Hard

About

Austrolycopodium erectum is a species in the club moss family Lycopodiaceae. The genus Austrolycopodium is accepted in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), but not in other classifications which submerge the genus in Lycopodium. The species is native to Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

Other Austrolycopodium plants

Alpine Clubmoss · Magellanic Clubmoss · Austrolycopodium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Austrolycopodium erectum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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