''Austrolycopodium erectum'' is a species in the club moss family
Lycopodiaceae
The Lycopodiaceae (class Lycopodiopsida, order Lycopodiales) 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 mi ...
. The genus ''
Austrolycopodium'' is accepted in the
Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group
The Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group (PPG) is an informal international group of systematic botanists who collaborate to establish on the classification of pteridophytes ( lycophytes and ferns) that reflects knowledge about plant relationships discove ...
classification of 2016 (PPG I),
[ but not in other classifications which submerge the genus in '']Lycopodium
''Lycopodium'' (from Ancient Greek ''lykos'', wolf and ''podion'', diminutive of ''pous'', foot) is a genus of clubmosses, also known as ground pines or creeping cedars, in the family Lycopodiaceae. Two very different circumscriptions of the gen ...
''.[ The species is native to Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.][
]
References
Lycopodiaceae
Flora of Argentina
Flora of Bolivia
Flora of Chile
Plants described in 1865
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