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Lycopodiophyta (Clubmosses, Firmosses and Quillworts)

 

Order: Isoetales

Family: Isoetaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Isoetes amazonica A. Braun (1880) - (rediscovered) Brazil Rediscovered Access
             
Isoetes bradei Herter (1949) - October 1921 or later Brazil Missing or extinct Access
             
Isoetes dixitii
Shende. (1945) - (rediscovered) Western Ghats, India Rediscovered? Access
             
Isoetes gardneriana Kunze ex Mett. (1869) - (rediscovered) Brazil Rediscovered Access
             
Isoetes haussknechtii Troìa & Greuter (2015) Greek quillwort (rediscovered) Greece Rediscovered Access
             
Isoetes heldreichii Wettst. (1886) Pindus quillwort July 1885 Pindos Mountains, Greece Extinct Access
             

Isoetes louisianensis

Thieret (1973) Louisiana quillwort (rediscovered) Louisiana & Mississippi, USA Rediscovered Access
             
Isoetes philippinensis Merr. & L.M. Perry (1940) - (rediscovered) Philippines Rediscovered Access
             
Isoetes sampathkumarnii L.N.Rao (1944) - ? Karnataka, India Extinct or invalid (synonym) Access
             
Isoetes sinensis Palmer (1927) Narrow quillwort ? China Erroneously listed as possibly extinct Access

 

 

Order: Lycopodiales

Family: Lycopodiaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Huperzia rubra (Cham. & Schltdl.) Trevis. (1875 "1874")   (rediscovered) Minas Gerais state, Brazil Rediscovered Access

 

 

Order: Selaginellales

Family: Selaginellaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Selaginella orizabensis Hieron. (1902)   1855 Veracruz, Mexico Extinct Access

 

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