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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Lycopodium laterale R.Br.

L. laterale R. Br. Prodr. 1810, 165.

L. consimile Col. in T.N.Z.I. 16, 1884, 348.

Rhizome much branched; aerial branches erect, stout, up to 3 dm. tall. Lvs close-set, spreading to ascending, up to 7 mm. long, lanceolate-subulate, acuminate, decurrent, mid-rib evident, margins ± revolute. Strobili lateral or terminal on short branchlets, sessile, ascending, up to 15 mm. or more long. Sporophylls imbricate, finally spreading, broad-ovate, abruptly acuminate, margins jagged.

DIST.: N., S., St. Common in lowland and montane bogs and moorland. Australia, New Caledonia.

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