Scientific Name: Lycopodium deuterodensum

Common Name: conifer clubmoss

Family Classification (Clade): Pteridophytes

Family: Lycopodiaceae

Form Description: Fern ally with long creeping rhizomes and erect aerial stems. Sterile leaves narrowly triangular; fertile leaves in erect cone-like spikes.

Municipality
Break O’DayBurnieCentral CoastCentral HighlandsCircular HeadDerwent ValleyDorsetFlindersGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayHuon ValleyKentishKing IslandKingboroughLatrobeLauncestonMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsTasmanWaratah-WynyardWest CoastWest Tamar
Plant Communities
Dry Eucalypt ForestHeath
Habitat Notes

Common and widespread in lowland Tasmania in well-drained sites in heathland or dry sclerophyll forest. Also colonises road cuttings where it grows with its rhizomes exposed.

Site Tolerance

Dry, Exposed, Moist

Soil Tolerance

Fertile, Loam, Well-drained

General Notes

An attractive and distinct species with large upright stems resembling a small conifer. This species has not yet been successfully cultivated with collected plants dying quickly.

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method
Specialist Method

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Sporangia produced within specialised cone-like structures called stroboli.