Flora of New Zealand Series

Lycopodium nudum L. Sp. Pl. 1753, 1100.

P. triquetrum Swartz Syn. Fil. 1806, 117.

P. heterocarpum Col. in T.N.Z.I. 20, 1888, 237.

Aerial axis up to 4 dm. long, erect, much branched, branchlets triquetrous. Lobes on angles of axis and branchlets, 2-4 mm. long, ovate-subulate. Sporangia subsessile, globose, subcoriac., 1·5-3 mm. diam., 3-lobed, 3-celled.

DIST.: K., common; N., various lowland localities from lat. 35º to 39º, usually terrestrial.