Lycopodiaceae

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Lycopodiaceae

The Lycopodiaceae (class Lycopodiopsida

Lycopodiopsida

Lycopodiopsida is a class of plants often loosely grouped as the fern ally, and includes the clubmosses. Lycopodiopsida traditionally included all the clubmosses, including Selaginella and Isoetes....
, order Lycopodiales) is a family of primitive vascular plants, including all of the core clubmosses. These plants bear spore

Spore

In biology, a spore is a reproduction structure that is adapted for biological dispersal and surviving for extended periods of time in unfavorable conditions....
s on specialized structures at the apex of a shoot; they resemble a tiny battle club

Club (weapon)

A club is among the simplest of all weapons. A club is essentially a short staff , or stick, usually made of wood, and wielded as a weapon....
, from which the common name derives.

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The Lycopodiaceae (class Lycopodiopsida

Lycopodiopsida

Spore

Club (weapon)

A club is among the simplest of all weapons. A club is essentially a short staff , or stick, usually made of wood, and wielded as a weapon....
, from which the common name derives. They are non-flowering and do not produce seed

Seed

A seed is a small Plant embryogenesis plant enclosed in a covering called the seed coat, usually with some Food storage. It is the product of the ripened ovule of gymnosperm and angiosperm plants which occurs after fertilization and some growth within the mother plant....
s.

The genera Huperzia
Firmoss

Huperzia is a genus of Lycopodiophyta plants, sometimes known as the Firmosses or Fir clubmosses. These species have traditionally been included in the related genus Lycopodium, but the trend in recent treatments has been to place them in a separate genus....
, Phlegmariurus
Firmoss

Huperzia is a genus of Lycopodiophyta plants, sometimes known as the Firmosses or Fir clubmosses. These species have traditionally been included in the related genus Lycopodium, but the trend in recent treatments has been to place them in a separate genus....
and Phylloglossum
Phylloglossum

Phylloglossum, a genus in the clubmoss Family Huperziaceae, is a small plant superficially resembling a tiny Poaceae plant, growing with a rosette of slender leaf 2-5 cm long from an underground bulb-like root....
, the species of which were generally included in a more broadly defined Lycopodium in older classifications, are treated in the separate family Huperziaceae

Huperziaceae

The family Huperziaceae is one of two families sometimes recognized in the order Lycopodiopsida, and contains two or three extant genera:*Huperzia ; 10-15 species; terrestrial....
in some classifications; they differ in producing spores in small lateral structures in the leaf axils. There is as yet no consensus on the recognition of Huperziaceae as a separate family; a more broadly defined Lycopodiaceae, including these genera, is still recognized in some classifications.

Uses

The spores have been used by violin maker
Luthier

A luthier is someone who makes or repairs stringed instruments. The word luthier comes from the French language word wikt:en:luth#French which is French for "lute"....
s for centuries as a pore filler. This filler is commercially available through Howard Core and Associates.
In Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, club mosses gathered during certain lunar phases were historically used as a remedy for eye disease.