• Family : LYCOPODIACEAE
  (THE CLUB MOSS FAMILY)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LYCOPODIACEAE
• Basionym : Lycopodium cernuum L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic. Serm.
• Habit : Herb-Epiphytic
• Habitat : Along roadsides at 2200 m.
• Comments / notes : Common throughout, from sea level to higher elevations. Often found on road cuttings.
• Fertile : May-September
• Collector(s) Name : F.M Jarret & C.J Saldanha; Raja K. Swamy & Noel Sebastian
• Collection Date : 22/09/1970; 24-11-2018
• Collection Nos : 17061; HJCB-1768
• Collection Locality : above Moir point, Kodaikkanal; Devikulam, Idukki district, Kerala
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikamagalur district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu district, Shimoga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Odisha : Similipal Hills (Mayurbhanj district), Koraput district
  • Tamil Nadu : Yercaud Hills (Salem district)
• Native : Caribbean, North America, Oceania
• World Distribution : Tropics of both the hemispheres.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Rajagopal & Bhat, Pteridophytic flora of Karnataka State- 1998; 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; : Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. 2008. Taxonomic revision of Indian subcontinental Pteridophytes; Herbarium specimen from Devikulam, Idukki district, Kerala (not scanned)
• 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=Lycopodiella cernua. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)