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Lycopodiopsida is a
class of
vascular plants also
known as lycopsids,
lycopods, or lycophytes.
Members of the
class are also
called clubmosses, firmosses...
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Lycopod may
refer to a
member of the lycophytes,
defined broadly to
include the
extinct zosterophylls the
class Lycopodiopsida as
defined in the Pteridophyte...
- microphylls. Lycopodites, an
early lycopod-like
fossil External mold of
Lepidodendron from the
Upper Carboniferous of Ohio.
Lycopod bark
showing leaf scars, from...
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cambium of
Lepidodendron lycopsid produced only
secondary xylem. As the
lycopods aged, the wood
produced by the
unifacial cambium decreased towards the...
- of the
Permian a
major transition in
vegetation began. The swamp-loving
lycopod trees of the Carboniferous, such as
Lepidodendron and Sigillaria, were...
- and rhyniophytes, had
colonised the tropics. The
former evolved into the
lycopods that were to
dominate the
Gondwanan vegetation over a long period, whilst...
- fact the
alternative name
Filicopsida was
already in use. By
comparison "
lycopod" or
lycophyte (club moss)
means wolf-plant. The term "fern ally" included...
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Silurian Waukesha Biota of Wisconsin.
Partially coalified axis (branch) of a
lycopod from the
Devonian of Wisconsin.
Because of
their antiquity, an unexpected...
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Representatives of the
lycopods have
survived to the
present day. By the end of the
Devonian period,
several groups,
including the
lycopods,
sphenophylls and...
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whorls of leaves,
which was
probably related both to the
calamites and the
lycopods. Cordaites, a tall
plant (6 to over 30 meters) with strap-like leaves,...
