Vittore
Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon, 1874.
Family:
Lycopodiaceae
Habitat:
North-Eastern Queensland, Australia; Tropical Africa to Asia
and the Pacific
Soil:
Mix or Peat
(Epiphytic or lithophytic plant)
Water:
Medium-Maximum
Sun:
Medium-Maximum
Thickness:
5
millimetres
Height:
20-100
centimetres
Flower:
No
Reproduction:
Spores/Cuttings
Pop names:
Rock
Tassel Fern, Ulvefod, Fine Rock Wooly
Synonyms:
Lycopodium squarrosum, Johann
Georg Adam Forster 1786.
Plananthus squarrosus (G. Forst.) P. Beauv. 1805. Urostachys
squarrosus (G. Forst.) Herter 1923. Phlegmariurus
squarrosus, Á.Löve & D.Löve 1977.
Got
it from:
Fredensborg
Year:
2007
A wild plant I found on
northern Madagascar.
This member of the
Lycopodiaceae family was given this name by Vittore
Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon in 1874. It is found in north-eastern Queensland,
Australia; Tropical Africa and Madagascar to Asia and the Pacific,
growing in a rich peat, or as an epiphytic with some to lots of water and
some to lots of
sun.
