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Lycopodiella
Also called Bog Clubmoss, Club Moss, Bog Clubmosses
Lycopodiella is a genus of small, non-flowering clubmosses (bog clubmosses) that spread along wet, sandy ground. Growers typically keep them as damp, boggy plants in full light with consistently moist soil.
Lycopodiella is a genus in the clubmoss family Lycopodiaceae. The genus members are commonly called bog clubmosses, describing their wetland habitat. In the past, the genus was often incorporated within the related genus Lycopodium, but was segregated in 1964. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), Lycopodiella is placed in the subfamily Lycopodielloideae, along with three other genera. In this circumscription, the genus has about 15 species. Other sources use a wider circumscription, in which the genus is equivalent to the Lycopodielloideae of PPG I, in which case about 40 species and hybrids are accepted. Narrowly circumscribed, the genus has a circumboreal distribution, extending south in the Americas throughout tropical South America.
Lycopodiella (in the narrower circumscription used here) is distributed throughout the north-temperate regions of the world, and south through tropical America as far as northern Argentina. They typically grow on wet, sandy soil, among grasses or on open soil with at most a thin organic layer.
Foxtail clubmoss · Southern bog clubmoss · Inundated clubmoss
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