Pseudolycopodiella meridionalis (Underw. & F.E.Lloyd) Holub var. meridionalis, Folia Geobot. Phytotax.

Øllgaard, Benjamin, Boudrie, Michel & Cremers, Georges, 2020, The Lycopodiaceae of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, Phytotaxa 433 (2), pp. 101-134 : 130-131

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.433.2.3

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scientific name

Pseudolycopodiella meridionalis (Underw. & F.E.Lloyd) Holub var. meridionalis, Folia Geobot. Phytotax.
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4a. Pseudolycopodiella meridionalis (Underw. & F.E.Lloyd) Holub var. meridionalis, Folia Geobot. Phytotax. View in CoL 18: 442. 1983.— Lycopodiella caroliniana (L.) Pic.Serm. var. meridionalis (Underw. & F.E.Lloyd) B.Øllg. & P.G.Windisch, Bradea View in CoL 5: 27. 1987.— Lycopodium meridionale Underw. & F.E.Lloyd, Bull. Torr. Bot. View in CoL Club 33: 121. 1906.— Lycopodium carolinianum L. var. meridionale (Underw. & F.E.Lloyd) Nessel, Arch. Bot. Est. S. Paulo 1: 431. 1927. Type:— PUERTO RICO. [Río Grande?]: Dry savannahs, Luquillo Mountains, P. Wilson 94 (holotype NY! [00126961]; isotype US [00135527]). Fig. 16 View FIGURE 16 .

Plants with horizontal shoots anisophyllous, prostrate, bearing dorsal, erect, simple, homophyllous strobiliferous branches. Creeping shoots with long and wide lateral leaves, and shorter, narrow dorsal leaves. Lateral leaves broadly triangular-ovate to lanceolate, entire. Dorsal leaves lanceolate to subulate. Vegetative leaves of erect branches distant, not concealing the stem, borne in alternating whorls 3–4. Strobili 3–10 mm in diam. incl. sporophylls. Sporophylls subpeltate, rhombic or ovate-acuminate or ovate-cuspidate to triangular-lanceolate, entire to erose-denticulate. Sporangia isovalvate, borne on the sporophyll stalk, ca. 1.5 mm wide.

Distribution:—Widely distributed in tropical America, rare in the Andes.

Habitats:—Terrestrial, sometimes epilithic, usually on wet ground, on road banks, slopes, ledges, grasslands, sea level to ca. 1300 m.

Selected specimens examined:— GUYANA (29 collections): Kaieteur Plateau, Maguire & Fanshawe 23111 ( BR, F, K, P, U, UC, US, VEN) ; Parabu Savanna, watershed between Rupununi and Kuyuni R., A.C. Smith 3052 (F, K, MO, NY, P, S, US) .— SURINAME (30 collections): Road Moengo tapoe-Gr. Zwibelzwamp, Lanjouw & Lindeman 953 (K, US) ; just E of Zanderij , Tryon & Kramer 5616 ( COL, P, S, US).— FRENCH GUIANA (26 collections): Savane de Corossony, PK 111 on road Cayenne-St. Laurent, Cremers 9419 ( AAU, B, CAY, P, U, Z) ; Savane Macoua- Région Littorale, 10 m, Hoff 5575 ( AAU, B, CAY, US) ; Régina, Montagne Petite Tortue , near Régina, km 90 along rte Nat. 2, 36–50 m, 52°43’W 4°18’N, 26 Feb 2003, Christenhusz et al. 2535 ( AAU, CAY) GoogleMaps .

BR

Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collection

UC

Upjohn Culture Collection

US

University of Stellenbosch

VEN

Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela

MO

Missouri Botanical Garden

NY

William and Lynda Steere Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden

COL

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

AAU

Addis Ababa University, Department of Biology

CAY

Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD)

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Lycopodiopsida

Order

Lycopodiales

Family

Lycopodiaceae

Genus

Pseudolycopodiella

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Pseudolycopodiella meridionalis (Underw. & F.E.Lloyd) Holub var. meridionalis, Folia Geobot. Phytotax.

Øllgaard, Benjamin, Boudrie, Michel & Cremers, Georges 2020
2020
Loc

var. meridionalis (Underw. & F.E.Lloyd) B.Øllg. & P.G.Windisch, Bradea

P. G. Windisch 1987: 27
1987
Loc

Pseudolycopodiella meridionalis (Underw. & F.E.Lloyd) Holub var. meridionalis

Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 1983: 442
1983
Loc

var. meridionale (Underw. & F.E.Lloyd) Nessel, Arch. Bot. Est. S. Paulo

Nessel 1927: 431
1927
Loc

Lycopodium meridionale Underw. & F.E.Lloyd, Bull. Torr. Bot.

Underw. & F. E. Lloyd 1906: 121
1906
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