Lycopodium clavatum

Lycopodium clavatum L. (Lycopodiaceae). Cadair Idris (Wales - GB). © 2002 by Yves Krippel.Lycopodium clavatum L.
EnglishStag’s-horn Clubmoss
FrançaisLycopode en massue
DeutschKeulen-Bärlapp
Lëtzebuergesch Klëppel-Äerdmoos, Blëtzpolverkraut
Class: Lycopodiopsida
Family: Lycopodiaceae

Status

CR – critical

Map Lycopodium clavatum

Further information

Lycopodium clavatum is considered as ‘critically endangered’. In the last decades however, the species was no longer observed in its known locations, and it was considered as possibly extinct!

Fortunately Jean Werner and Thierry Mahévas, investigating the bryophytes in the valley of the Mandelbaach near Brouch/Mersch found a new site of this extremely rare species in spring 2013, more than 20 years after the last observation made in 1992 in the north of Luxembourg (Krippel & Colling 2014: 110).

More information about Lycopodium clavatum in Luxembourg was compiled by Krippel & Massard (2019).

References

Krippel, Y. & G. Colling, 2014. Notes floristiques. Observations faites au Luxembourg (2012-2013). Bull. Soc. Nat. luxemb. 115: 109-124.
Krippel, Y. & J. A. Massard, 2019. – Les lycopodes (Lycopodiaceae) au Luxembourg – notes chorologiques et liste rouge. – Bull. Soc. Nat. luxemb. 121: 53-69.

Suggested citation of this webpage

Krippel, Y., 2024. Lycopodium clavatum L. In: Online atlas of the pteridophytes of Luxembourg. URL: https://pteridophytes.lu/lycopodium-clavatum/ [accessed 2024-10-16].