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Phlegmariurus
Sign in to savePhlegmariurus is a genus of lycophyte plants in the family Lycopodiaceae. The genus is recognized in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), but not by some other sources, which keep it in a broadly defined Huperzia.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLycopodiopsida
- OrderLycopodiales
- FamilyLycopodiaceae
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,004
- With media
- 766
- Family
- Lycopodiaceae
- Collections
- BRIT, NY, MICH
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Fiji, United States, Bolivia, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Ecuador, Peru
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Phlegmariurus is a genus of lycophyte plants in the family Lycopodiaceae. The genus is recognized in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), but not by some other sources, which keep it in a broadly defined Huperzia.
==Taxonomy== The genus was first described in 1909 by Wilhelm Herter as the section Phlegmariurus of the genus Lycopodium. The section was elevated to a genus by Josef Ludwig Holub in 1964.
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