• Family : LYCOPODIACEAE
  (THE CLUB MOSS FAMILY)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LYCOPODIACEAE
• Basionym : Lycopodium hamiltonii Spreng.
• Synonym(s) : Huperzia petiolata (C.B. Clarke) R.D. Dixit
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Huperzia hamiltonii (Spreng.) Trevis.
• Habit : Herb-Epiphytic
• Fertile : May-February
• Collector(s) Name : C. J. Saldanha; C. J. Saldanha
• Collection Nos : CS 11121; CJS 13326
• Collection Locality : Byagadhalli to Heltur, Bangalore; Streams between Devalkare and Devarunde, Hassan
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu district, Mysore district, Shimoga district, Uttara Kannada district, Belgaum district
  • Odisha : Similipal Hills (Mayurbhanj district), Ganjam district
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Fraser-Jenkins, Taxonomic revision of Indian Subcontinental Pteridophytes 2008; Rajagopal, P.K. & Bhat, K.G. (2016). Pteridophytes of Karnataka State, India. Vinayaka Prakashana Publishers; H.O. Saxena and M. Brahmam. 1989. The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; H.O. Saxena and M. Brahmam. 1996. The Flora of Orissa, Vol-4.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Huperzia hamiltonii. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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