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The club mosses (Lycopodiales) are usually evergreen, and have been used as Christmas decorations, though their flammable spores and increasing rarity has made this illegal in some states. Other lycophytes, such as Selaginella, may form extensive carpets in the understory of wet tropical forests.
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Club mosses produce spores from stroboli located at their tips. They are also known as ground pine. They have similar structure to conifers and are considered to be evolutionary predecessors to conifers. Male and female cones are called strobili.
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home.att.net/~dudemarshall/clubmoss.htm
home.att.net/~dudemarshall/clubmoss.htm
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Lepidodendron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lepidodendron (also known as the "Scale tree") is an extinct genus of primitive, vascular, arborescent (tree-like) plant related to the Lycopsids (club mosses). It was part of the coal forest flora...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidodendron
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Lycopodiopsida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lycopodiopsida is a class of plants often loosely grouped as the fern allies, and includes the clubmosses. Lycopodiopsida traditionally included all the clubmosses, including Selaginella and Isoet...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycopodiopsida
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Common Name Index; A MODERN HERBAL Home Page ... Bear in mind "A Modern Herbal" was written with the conventional wisdom of the early 1900's. This should be taken into account as some of the information may now be considered inaccurate, or not in accordance with modern medicine. ... ; Botanical.com Home Page...
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www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/c/clubms77.html
www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/c/clubms77.html
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Text Archive > American Libraries > The flowering plants, grasses, sedges, and ferns of Great Britain, and their allies, the club mosses, pepperworts and horsetails...
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Club mosses, also called lycophytes, are flowerless and seedless plants in the family Lycopodiaceae, that belong to an ancient group of plants of the division Lycophyta. The lycophytes were one of the dominant plants during the Coal age (360-286 million years ago) and many were shrubs or large trees.
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science.jrank.org/pages/1531/Club-Mosses.html
science.jrank.org/pages/1531/Club-Mosses.html
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The ancient earth hundreds of millions of years ago in the carboniferous period, had a very different vegetation and contained vast forests filled with giant club mosses, which grew to one hundred feet in height - such primeval forest dominated the landscape of the early earth millions of years before man even appeared...
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www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_club_moss.htm
www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_club_moss.htm
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