| Lycopodium selago subsp. appressum (Desv.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Lycopodiaceae — APG family: Lycopodiaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Huperzia selago subsp. appressum (Desv.) D. Love., Lycopodium selago var. appressum Desv., Lycopodium selago subsp. arcticum Tolm., Lycopodium appressum (Desv.) Petrov | ||
| Description | Similar to subsp. selago, but leaves broad, appressed, often incurved. Passes freely into subsp. selago, but has own range. | ||
| Ecology | On tundra and in mountains. Described from St. Paul Island and Newfoundland. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | In extreme arctic or alpine localities, this plant has only a single, short stem, with strongly appressed short leaves. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.