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Definition of Lycopsida
1. Noun. Club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta.
Generic synonyms: Class
Group relationships: Division Pteridophyta, Pteridophyta
Member holonyms: Class Lycopodineae, Lycopodineae, Club Moss, Club-moss, Lycopod, Lepidodendrales, Order Lepidodendrales, Lycopodiales, Order Lycopodiales, Order Selaginellales, Selaginellales, Isoetales, Order Isoetales
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lycopsida
Literary usage of Lycopsida
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Woody Plants by Edward Charles Jeffrey (1917)
"True seeds seem never to have made their appearance in the Lycopsida, although,
as has been pointed out in an earlier chapter, structures somewhat ..."
2. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1917)
"Students of plant evolution have reason for believing that all vascular plants
may be divided into two groups which have been named the Lycopsida and ..."
3. Fundamentals of Botany by Charles Stuart Gager (1916)
"According to this view vascular plants appear at the beginning of the fossil
record as two distinct series, the Lycopsida and Pteropsida. ..."
4. Heredity and Evolution in Plants by Charles Stuart Gager (1920)
"According to this view, vascular plants appear at the beginning of the fossil
record as two distinct series, the Lycopsida and Pteropsida. ..."
5. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"He adopts provisionally the division of vascular plants into two phyla, the
Lycopsida and the Pteropsida, as proposed by JEFFREY. Under the Lycopsida are ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1907)
"It is recognised that the distinction between Lycopsida and Pteropsida is by no
means an absolute one, and the existence of a certain affinity between ..."
7. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1919)
"Similarly, in the Lycopsida, the names of orders and families are practically
... It must be noted, however, that the orders in Lycopsida are very much more ..."
8. Transactions of the Canadian Institute by Canadian Institute (1849-1914). (1899)
"The validity of the classification indicated above, in the case of Lycopsida,
has already been discussed by the writer,54 in his memoir on the genus ..."