Lycopodium venustulum var. venustulum

Hairtip clubmoss

Lycopodiaceae (Club-moss family)

Indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands (All the main islands except Niʻihau and Kahoʻolawe; on Oʻahu, present only near the summit of Kaʻala in the Waiʻanae Mountains and probably absent from the Koʻolau Mountains)*

Photo: Kaʻala, Oʻahu

 

Still in the green stage, pictured here are the strobili, spikes or cones, which will contain the sporangia (spores).

 

Habit

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Etymology

The generic name Lycopodiella is derived from the Greek lycos, "wolf," and podos "foot," referring to it's likeness to a wolves foot.

 

The specific epithet venustus is Latin for lovely, beautiful, charming, + -ulus, a diminutive suffix.

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* "Hawaiʻi's Ferns and Fern Allies" Daniel D. Palmer, 2003

 

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