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Huperzia australiana

Huperzia australiana
Photo: Peter de Lange, CC0
Family
Lycopodiaceae (Lycopodi family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Borneo (Sabah), Sulawesi, SE. Australia, Macquarie Is., New Zealand
Climate
temperate

About

Huperzia australiana is a species of small terrestrial plant, a firmoss, in the Lycopodiaceae (clubmoss) family. It is native to Australia and New Zealand.

Where it grows

The plant occurs at sheltered sites in subalpine and subantarctic regions, in grasslands and around bogs, up to 2000 m above sea level.

Other Huperzia plants

Appalachian clubmoss · Appalachian Firmoss · Shining clubmoss · Rock clubmoss · Fir Clubmoss · Toothed clubmoss · Clubmoss

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Huperzia australiana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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