Lycopodium
4 species native AUST.; Qld, N.S.W., Vic., Tas., S.A.
Lycopodium deuterodensum
Terrestrial plants up to 1m high, with an elongated subterranean main stem and rigidly erect lateral stems. Sterile foliage dimorphic, both types sometimes occurring on the same plant; the commoner type of sterile leaves being lanceolate or narrowly ovate, densely imbricate, acuminate, 1–2.5 mm long, 0.2–0.75 mm wide, with scarious margins which are densely ciliate towards the base; the other type of leaves more spreading, entire, acuminate, 2.5–4 mm long, 0.2–0.5 mm wide. Strobili erect, sessile, terminal, 1–3 cm long; sporophylls overlapping, broadly ovate, acute, c. 2–3 mm long, 2 mm wide, with scarious fluted margins. Scrub, scrub-heathland, open forests, RF margins; on sandstone hillsides usually in sheltered moist positions or on the edge of swamps