''Botrychium lanceolatum'', known as lanceleaf moonwort, is a species of

plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...

belonging to the family

Ophioglossaceae Ophioglossaceae, from Ancient Greek ὄφις (''óphis''), meaning "snake", and γλῶσσα (''glôssa''), meaning "tongue", also known as the adder's-tongue family, is a small family of ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classificatio ...

. Its native range is subarctic and temperate Northern Hemisphere including Greenland.

Taxonomy

''Botrychium lanceolatum'' was first described as ''Osmunda lanceolata'' by

Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin Samuel George Gottlieb Gmelin (4 July 1744 – 27 July 1774) was a German physician, botanist, and explorer. Background Gmelin was born at Tübingen as part of a well-known family of naturalists. His father was Johann Conrad Gmelin, an apotheca ...

in 1768.

References

{{fern-stub lanceolatum Flora of Greenland Plants described in 1768