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Rock Tassel Fern

Phlegmariurus squarrosus

Also called Water Tassel Fern

Rock Tassel Fern
Photo: Canley, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Lycopodiaceae (Lycopodi family)

About

Phlegmariurus squarrosus is a species of lycophyte in the family Lycopodiaceae. The genus Phlegmariurus is accepted in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), but not in other classifications, which submerge the genus in Huperzia, with this species as Huperzia squarrosa. The species has a wide distribution from the west Indian Ocean, through tropical and subtropical Asia to eastern Australia and the Pacific.

Other Phlegmariurus plants

Phlegmariurus ascendens · Phlegmariurus austroecuadoricus · Phlegmariurus columnaris · Phlegmariurus compactus · Thick Firmoss · Phlegmariurus cumingii · Toothed Clubmoss · Phlegmariurus espinosanus · Phlegmariurus hastatus · Phlegmariurus llanganatensis · Phlegmariurus loxensis · Mann's Clubmoss

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

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