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Definition of Lycopodiales
1. Noun. Lower vascular plants coextensive with the family Lycopodiaceae; in some classifications includes the Selaginellaceae and Isoetaceae.
Generic synonyms: Plant Order
Group relationships: Class Lycopodiate, Class Lycopsida, Lycopodiate, Lycopsida
Member holonyms: Clubmoss Family, Family Lycopodiaceae, Lycopodiaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lycopodiales
Literary usage of Lycopodiales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"The characters not in common with Lycopodiales are (1) the large ... Throughout
Lycopodiales there appears a tendency to increase the output of spores ..."
2. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"SPORE-PRODUCING MEMBERS OF THE Lycopodiales. THE normal sporangia in the Lycopodiales
are always non-septate sacs, excepting that in the ..."
3. An Introduction to the Study of Fossils (plants and Animals) by Hervey Woodburn Shimer (1914)
"ORDER c, Lycopodiales Living club-mosses are largely creeping, many-branched plants.
... Lycopodiales are known from the Devonian to the present. ..."
4. Text-book of Botany and Pharmacognosy by Henry Kraemer (1908)
"The Lycopodiales, or Club Mosses (Fig. 46), are perennial moss-like plants, with
more or less erect or creeping and branching stems, on which are borne ..."
5. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Francis Wall Oliver (1895)
"Lycopodiales, Club-mc 'arms usually with elongated, branching stems and small
leaves distribute-1 over L The sporangia are borne on the upj>er surface of ..."
6. Applied and Economic Botany: Especially Adapted for the Use of Students in by Henry Kraemer (1914)
"The Lycopodiales, or Club Mosses (Fig. 66), are perennial moss-like plants, with
more or less erect or creeping and branching stems, on which are borne ..."
7. Pharmaceutical Botany by Heber Wilkinson Youngken, Francis Edward Stewart (1914)
"SUBDIVISION I— Lycopodiales OR CLUB MOSSES Small perennial vascular, dichotomously
branched herbs with stems thickly covered with awl-shaped leaves. ..."
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