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Pseudolycopodiella sarcocaulon

(Pseudolycopodiella sarcocaulon)

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Description

Plants of marshes or wetlands. Aerial shoots creeping, 10-30 cm, forked, 2-5 mm in diam., stem together with leaves 7-12 mm wide. Leaves spirally arranged, sparser on creeping side of stem, dense, ascending, yellowish green, not lustrous, lanceolate, slightly bent at base, 5-10 - 1-2 mm, papery, both surfaces crimped, midrib indistinct, base not narrowed, decurrent, sessile, margin entire, apex acuminate. Peduncles solitary, erect, 8-15 cm tall, 10-15 mm wide; bracts sparse, subulate to lanceolate, obviously smaller than leaves of creeping stems, 3-5 - ca. 1 mm, papery, margin entire, apex acuminate, with long acute tip; strobilus yellow, terete, 2.5-5 cm, 3-4 mm in diam. (excluding sporophylls); sporophylls monomorphic, yellow, broadly ovate, imbricate, 4-5 mm, 2-2.5 mm wide at base, leathery, margin membranous, with irregular blunt teeth, apex acute, caudate. Sporangia enclosed, reniform, ca. 1.2 mm in diam.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:
Class: Lycopodiopsida
Order:Lycopodiales
Family:Lycopodiaceae
Genus:Pseudolycopodiella
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