Common name: Scrambling Clubmoss
Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic.Serm. APNI* Synonyms: Lycopodium cernuum L. APNI*
Description: Main stems stout, branched, long, creeping over the surface of the ground, rooting at intervals; aerial stems erect, to 60 cm or sometimes longer, much branched.
Leaves ± crowded, recurved to ascending, linear to subulate, 2–5 mm long, <1 mm wide, pale green, keeled.
Strobili usually numerous, solitary and sessile on the apices of small pendent branchlets, oblong, to 1 cm long; sporophylls similar to but shorter than the leaves, margins finely toothed.
Distribution and occurrence: On moist cliff-faces or in open areas in rainforest or sclerophyll forest or on edges of swamps. Moist cliffs-faces or open areas in rainforest or sclerophyll forest or edges of swamps.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, ?NT, LHI
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. N.T.
Text by Peter G. Wilson (2000)
Taxon concept: R.J. Chinnock (1998)
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