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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Lycopodium serpentinum Kunze

L. serpentinum Kunze in Lehm. Pl. preiss, 2, 1846, 108.

L. drummondii Spring Mon. Lycop. 2, 1848, 35.

L. carolinianum Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 2, 1855, 54 non L. Sp. Pl. 1753.

Main stem prostrate, creeping and rooting, seldom more than 15 cm. long. Aerial branches rather distant, rigid, erect, up to 2 dm. long. Lvs of main stem uniform, dense, ascending, imbricate, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, c. 3 mm. long; lvs of aerial branches less dense, somewhat spreading. Strobili solitary, erect, up to 1dm. long, sts with sterile mid-region. Sporophylls deltoid, somewhat spreading, with long cusp.

DIST.: N. Sphagnum bogs at Lake Tongonge (near Kaitaia), Rukuhia (near Hamilton). Australia.

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