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club-moss - primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles

fern ally - pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida

strobile, strobilus, cone - cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts

class Lycopodiate, class Lycopsida, Lycopodiate, Lycopsida - club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta

Lycopodium lucidulum, shining clubmoss - a variety of club moss

alpine clubmoss, Lycopodium alpinum - a variety of club moss

fir clubmoss, little clubmoss, Lycopodium selago, mountain clubmoss - of northern Europe and America; resembling a miniature fir

Christmas green, ground pine - any of several club mosses having long creeping stems and erect branches

little club moss, spike moss, spikemoss - any of numerous fern allies of the genus Selaginella

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Already the site has yielded the trunk of a giant club-moss tree.

Wales used to be a tropical jungle

RUNNING GROUND-PINE; SOUTHERN RUNNING-PINE; CROWFOOT CLUB-MOSS. Figure 11.

PTERIDOPHYTES OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA AND ADJACENT HIGHLANDS

Trees, large shrubs, grasses, grasslike plants, and non-flowering plants such as ferns, horsetails, and club-mosses are excluded.

Wildflowers of New England

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