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This species is accepted, and its native range is Temp. Northern Hemisphere to Tropical Mountains. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders and as an ornamental plant.
Lycopodium clavatum

[UNAL]
Vernacular
Cacho de venao, Caminadera, Colchón de pobre, Lycopodio

[UPB]

The Useful Plants of Boyacá project

Morphology General Habit
Herb.
Ecology
Alt. 1050 - 4200 m.
Distribution
Native from Colombia.
Conservation
Not Evaluated.

[UPB]
Use Environmental Ornamentals
Ornamental (Galvis & Morales 2010, State of the World's Plants 2016).
Use Medicines Unspecified Medicinal Disorders
Folk medicine: spores are used as a lubricant for suppositories (Galvis & Morales 2010).

Native to:

Alabama, Alaska, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Burundi, Buryatiya, California, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central European Rus, Colombia, Comoros, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, East European Russia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Free State, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Labrador, Lesotho, Madagascar, Maine, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritius, Michigan, Minnesota, Mongolia, Montana, Mozambique, Netherlands, New Brunswick, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northern Provinces, Northwest European R, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Panamá, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, Solomon Is., South Carolina, Spain, Sudan, Sulawesi, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Tennessee, Thailand, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Siberia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Spanish
Caminadera, cacho de venado, licopodio, colchón de pobre, cacho de venao.

Lycopodium clavatum L. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
May 22, 2018 anonymous [27130], Malaysia K000698027
May 22, 2018 Samat bin Abdullah, A. [2053], Malaysia K000698024
May 22, 2018 Hardial [252], Malaysia K000698025
May 22, 2018 Saw, L.G. [34364], Malaysia K000446548
May 22, 2018 Holttum, R.E. [11203], Malaysia K000698029
May 22, 2018 Henderson, M.R. [10982], Malaysia K000698030
May 22, 2018 Holttum, R.E. [31386], Malaysia K000698031
May 22, 2018 Parris, B.S. [18/85], Malaysia K000698028
May 22, 2018 Chew, Wee-lek [1246], Malaysia K000698033
May 22, 2018 anonymous [8022], Malaysia K000698023
May 22, 2018 Sinclair, J. [9954], Malaysia K000698026
May 22, 2018 Shimizu, T. [13420], Malaysia K000698032
May 22, 2018 Banfield, F.S. [s.n.], Malaysia K000698034
Aug 1, 2009 Gardette, E. [86], Indonesia K000636989
Jan 19, 2009 Amin [SAN114351], Sabah K000421650
Dec 1, 2006 Gaerlan [26551], Philippines K000446854
Jul 1, 2005 Amin [117338], Malaysia K000420183
Mar 1, 2004 Mentor, A. [131348], Malaysia K000445598
Jan 1, 2003 Spruce, R. [5410], Ecuador K000200250
Jan 1, 1988 Borssum, J. W. van [2380], Indonesia K000757831
Jan 1, 1988 Main [359], Indonesia K000785001
Nov 10, 1986 Laumonier, Y. [6634], Indonesia K000757830
Jan 1, 1985 Beaman, J.H. [9964], Malaysia K000785011
Aug 2, 1980 Preston-Mafham, K.G. [10], Malaysia K000785021
Jan 1, 1980 Gibot, A. [74129], Malaysia K000785019
Jan 1, 1974 Jacobs, M. [7144], Philippines K000398543
Jan 1, 1974 Jacobs, M. [7209], Philippines K000398544
Jan 1, 1967 Weber, B.E. [54729], Malaysia K000785012
Nov 1, 1962 Matthew, C.G. [s.n.], Indonesia K000784192
Nov 1, 1962 Matthew, C.G. [s.n.], Indonesia K000784195
Nov 1, 1962 Hancock, W. [115], Indonesia K000784194
Nov 1, 1962 Newton, F. [s.n.], Indonesia K000785002
Nov 1, 1962 Hancock, W. [104], Indonesia K000784193
Aug 1, 1953 Meijer, W. [1720], Indonesia K000757843
Oct 1, 1940 Schiffner, V. [10], Indonesia K000757836
Jan 1, 1935 Clemens, J. [28532], Malaysia K000785015
Jan 1, 1935 Clemens, J. [30377], Indonesia K000757851
Jan 1, 1925 Bünnemeijer, H.A.B. [12262], Indonesia K000785023
Jan 1, 1919 Bünnemeijer, H.A.B. [5150], Indonesia K000784196
Jan 14, 1910 Mousset, M. [69], Indonesia K000757840
Jan 14, 1910 Mousset, M. [69], Indonesia K000757841
Santos, J.K. [31903], Philippines K000398541
Darnaedi, D. [137], Indonesia K000757829
Junghuhn, F.W. [290], Indonesia K000757842
Raciborski, M. [s.n.], Indonesia K000757845
Junghuhn, F.W. [275], Indonesia K000757850
Parris, B.S. [11603], Malaysia K000785005
Sinclair, J. [9139], Malaysia K000785006
Holttum, R.E. [25455], Malaysia K000785013
Wallich, N. [131], Nepal K001094164
Weber, B.E. [s.n.], Malaysia K000785003
Collenette, S. [21507], Malaysia K000785008
Kamau [648], Kenya K000696586
Katende [1034], Uganda K000449482
Beccari, O. [478], Indonesia K000757835
Raciborski, M. [s.n.], Indonesia K000757852
Everett, A.H. [72], Indonesia K000785022
Simpson, D.A. [89], Malaysia K000785016
Iwatsuki, k. [1161], Indonesia K000757832
Molesworth Allen, B.E.G. [3264], Malaysia K000785017
Steenis, C.G.G.J. van [10637], Indonesia K000757848
Clemens, J. [51629], Malaysia K000785014
Blume, C.L. [s.n.], Indonesia K000757847
Parris, B.S. [11292], Malaysia K000785004
Clemens, J. [29003], Malaysia K000785018
Raciborski, M. [s.n.], Indonesia K000757846
Schmutz, E. [1966], Indonesia K000757849
Chew, W.L. [725], Malaysia K000785020
Iwatsuki, k. [1440], Indonesia K000757833
Parris, B.S. [11187], Indonesia K000785024
Saikeh Lantoh [82754], Malaysia K000785009
Voogd, C.N.A.de [s.n.], Indonesia K000757837
Whitehead, J.C. [236], Indonesia K000757834
Amin [121015], Malaysia K000451269
Ernst, A. [500], Indonesia K000757838
Kato, M. [1456], Malaysia K000785007
Kostermans, A. [s.n.], Indonesia K000757839
Vriese, W.H. de [s.n.], Indonesia K000757844
Micholitz, W. [s.n.], Philippines K000398539
Gibot, A. [79577], Malaysia K000785010

First published in Sp. Pl.: 1101 (1753)

Accepted by

  • (2019). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23818107.2019.1652848 epublication.
  • Abdulina, S.A. (1999). Spisok Sosudistykn Rastenii Kazakhstana: 1-187. Academy of Sciences, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
  • Cherepanov, S. K. (ed.) (1981). Sosudistye Rasteniia SSSR 1: 1-509. Nauka, Leningradskoe Otdelenie.
  • Delipavlov, D. & Cheshmedzhiev, I. (eds.) (2011). Opredelitel na rasteniiata v Bulgariia: 1-590. Akad. Isd. Agrar. Univers. Plovdiv.
  • Flora of China Editorial Committee (2013). Lycopodiaceae through Polypodiaceae Flora of China 2-3: 1-959. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis).
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee in Flora of North America Editorial Committee (1993). Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms Flora of North America North of Mexico 2: 1-474. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • Gorchakovskii, P.L. & al. (1994). Opredelitel' sosudistykkhrastenii srednego Urala: 1-524. Nauka, Moscow.
  • Güner, A. (ed.) (2018). Resimli Türkiye Florasi (Illustrated Flora of Turkey) 2: 1-1054. ANG Vakfi/Nezahat Gökyigit Botanik Bahçesi, Istambul.
  • Krasnoborov, I.M. (ed.) (2000). Flora of Siberia 1: 1-189. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
  • Malyschev, L.I., Peshkova, G.A. & Baikov, K.S. (eds.) (2007). Flora of Siberia 14: 1-210. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
  • Meades, S.J. & Brouillet, L. (2019). Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador https://www.newfoundland-labradorflora.com/checklist/.
  • Probatova, N.S. & al. (2006). Flora Rossiiskogo Dal'nego Vostoka. Dopolneniya i izmeneniya k izdaniyu Sosudistye rasteniya sovetskogo Dal'nego Vostoka t. 1-8 (1985-1996): 1-454. Russian academy of sciences Far Eastern branch.
  • Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.

Literature

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., S.R. Gradstein & M. Celis (eds.). 2019. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Mildbr. Wiss. Ergebn. 1910–11, 2 : 177 (1922).
  • Sim F.S.A., ed. 2, 328, t. 180 (1915)
  • — Bak. F. Allies 25 (1887)

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • Galvis-Rueda, M., Morales, M.E. (2010). Páramos de Boyacá, Flora representativa. (1st ed.). Tunja Corporación Autónoma Regional de Boyacá.
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Castro, C. (Proveedor de metadatos), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). Versión 11.0. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Kew's Economic Botany collection in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Abdulina, S.A. (1999). Spisok Sosudistykn Rastenii Kazakhstana: 1-187. Academy of Sciences, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
  • Cherepanov, S. K. (ed.) (1981). Sosudistye Rasteniia SSSR 1: 1-509. Nauka, Leningradskoe Otdelenie.
  • Forzza, R.C., Zappi, D. & Souza, V.C. (2016-continuously updated). Flora do Brasil 2020 em construção http://reflora.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/listaBrasil/ConsultaPublicaUC/ResultadoDaConsultaNovaConsulta.do.
  • GBIF ( 2021-continuously updated). Global Biodiversity Information Facility http://www.gbif.org/.
  • Krasnoborov, I.M. (ed.) (2000). Flora of Siberia 1: 1-189. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
  • Meades, S.J. & Brouillet, L. (2019). Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador https://www.newfoundland-labradorflora.com/checklist/.

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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
ColPlantA database
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