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Interrupted clubmoss
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Clubmosses & spikemosses

Interrupted clubmoss

Spinulum annotinum (L.) A.Haines

Names

EnglishInterrupted clubmoss
DutchStekende wolfsklauw
SpanishLycopodium annotinum
Chinese多穗石松
Scientific nameSpinulum annotinum (L.) A.Haines

About this species

Spinulum annotinum, synonym Lycopodium annotinum, known as interrupted club-moss, or stiff clubmoss, is a species of clubmoss native to forests of the colder parts of North America (Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, all 10 provinces and all 3 territories of Canada, Alaska, and mountains of the contiguous United States), as well as Asia (China, Russia, Japan, Korea, Nepal, Assam), and most of Europe. It is an evergreen perennial pteridophyte. The genus Spinulum is accepted in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), but not in other classifications, which submerge the genus in Lycopodium.

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Classification

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassLycopodiopsida
OrderLycopodiales
FamilyLycopodiaceae
GenusSpinulum

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