Family Index

Scientific Name

Lycopodium deuterodensum

Family Name

LYCOPODIACEAE

Common Name

Bushy Clubmoss

Status

Height

0.9m (90cm)

Flowers

None

Fruit

Spores

Form

Fern ally with long creeping rhizomes & erect aerial stems. Sterile leaves narrowly triangular, fertile leaves in erect cone-like spikes.

Municipalities

Break O'Day; Burnie; Central Coast; Central Highlands; Circular Head; Derwent Valley; Dorset; Flinders Island; Georgetown; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Huon Valley; Kentish; King Island; Kingborough; Latrobe; Launceston; Meander Valley; Northern Midlands; Tasman; Waratah-Wynyard; West Coast; West Tamar

Communities

Dry Eucalypt Forest and Woodland; Heath; Roadsides

Habitat Notes

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

Site Tolerance

Dry; Exposed; Moist

Frost Tolerance

Soil Tolerance

Fertile; Loam; Well-drained

General Notes

An attractive and distinct species with large upright stems resembling a small conifer. Suitable below powerlines.

Propagation Details

Propagation Calendar

Flowering Months

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Seed Collecting Months

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Sowing Months

Jan

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Cutting Months

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Seed Information

Seed Collection

Sporangia produced within specialised cone-like strucures called stroboli

Seed Treatment Method

Seed Storage Life

Viable Seeds Per Gram

Seed Treatment Notes

This species has not yet been successfully cultivated with collected plants dying quickly.

Germination Time

Suitable for Direct Seeding

Cuttings

Expected Time to Take Root

Expected Time to Plant Out

Propagation by Division N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.

Cutting Notes