The Lycopodiaceae are an old family of vascular plants, including all of the core clubmosses and firmosses, comprising 17 accepted genera and about 500 known species. This family originated about 380
Lycopodium annotinum 1
Lepidodendron reconstrucción
The lycophytes, are a clade of vascular plants that reproduce with spores. When broadly circumscribed, they include the clubmosses. They are sometimes placed in a division Lycopodiophyta or Lycophyta
Lycopodiaceae
…Lycopodiaceae (Clubmosses) Spinulum annotinum Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade: Tracheophytes Clade: Lycophytes Class: Lycopodiopsida Order: Lycopodiales Family: Lycopodiaceae P.Beauv. ex Mirb. 1802 Genera See text The Lycopodiaceae (class Lycopodiopsida, order…
Lycopodites, an early lycopod-like fossil
External mold of Lepidodendron from the Upper Carboniferous of Ohio.
Lycopod bark showing leaf scars, from the Middle Devonian of Wisconsin.
Fossil in situ lycopsid, probably Sigillaria, with attached stigmarian roots.