Lycopodiopsida
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Lycopodiopsida is a class of vascular plants also known as lycopsids, lycopods, or lycophytes. Members of the class are also called clubmosses, firmosses, spikemosses and quillworts. They have dichoto
Lycopodium plant
External impression of Lepidodendron from the Upper Carboniferous of Ohio
Axis (branch) from Archaeosigillaria or related lycopod from the Middle Devonian of Wisconsin
Lepidodendron reconstrucción
Lycophyte
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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
Lycopodiopsida
…Temporal range: Palhinhaea cernua with close-up of branch Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade: Embryophytes Clade: Tracheophytes Clade: Lycophytes Class: Lycopodiopsida Bartl. Orders Isoetales (quillworts) Lycopodiales (clubmosses, firmosses) Selaginellales (spikemosses) †Lepidodendrales (arborecent…
Lycopodites, an early lycopod-like fossil
Lycopod bark showing leaf scars, from the Middle Devonian of Wisconsin.
Fossil in situ lycopsid, probably Sigillaria, with attached stigmarian roots.