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Taxon: Class Lycopsida - club-mosses (plant)
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Authorship

Original name & rank:  Prantl, K. 1874. Lehrb. Bot.: 123 ("Lycopodinae"). ≡
Subsequent spelling (diff. rank):  Jeffrey, 1899. Trans. Canad. Inst. 6: 632 ("group"). ≡

Types

Automatically typified subtaxon of: Lycophytina (Subphylum) "Banks, 1968" Ref: DiMichele & Bateman, 1996: 545.

Variants

Clade-based name: Lycopsida (Clade) [Crane & Kenrick 1997], nom. cl. inval. Ref: P.R. Crane & P. Kenrick, 1997: tables 5 (p. 93), 9 (p. 101). [implicit]
Different spelling: Lycopodiopsida (Class) Bartl. (1830)

Synonyms

Accepted name: Lycopodiatae (Class) Ref: F. Weberling & H.O. Schwantes, 1972: 335.
Synonymous name: Lycophyceae (Class) Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Including: Isoetopsida (Subdivision)
Including: Isoetopsida (Class) Rolle (1885)
Including: Lycopodiopsida (Subdivision) Bartl. (1830)

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: wolfsklauwachtigen Ref: R. van der Meijden, 1990: 30.

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: club-mosses Ref: C.J. Cleal & B.A. Thomas, 1995: 12.
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