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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Lycopodium volubile G.Forst.

L. volubile Forst. f. Prodr. 1786, 86.

L. d'urvillei A. Rich. Essai Fl. N.Z. 1832, 60, non Bory in Duperry Voy. Coq. 1829, 248.

Main stems scandent, branched, up to 5 m. long, wiry, flexuose, with scattered minute appressed lvs. Lvs dimorphic. Lateral lvs flattened, subdistichous, spreading, 3-5 mm. long, lanceolate with broad decurrent base, ascending, falcate, acuminate, midrib evident; other lvs minute, linear, appressed. Strobili 2-10 cm. long, terminal on paniculate branchlets. Sporophylls small, broad-ovate, abruptly narrowed to subulate tip.

DIST.: K., N., S., St., Ch. Common in lowland and montane shrubland and forest margins. Waewaekoukou. Polynesia, New Caledonia, N. Australia, Malaya.

Nessel (loc. cit. 369) accepts "Durvillaei" A. Rich. as a variety of L. volubile Forst. f. Branching open, branches elongate; lvs 3·5-4 mm. long; strobili crowded, 3-5 cm. long. The specimen cited (Herb. Wien) is from N., collected by Reischek at "Travavera" [Tarawera?].

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