Glossary Details – Lecythidaceae

Glossary Details:

Title: Lycopodium lucidulum. Photo by S. A. Mori.

Description: Lycopodium lucidulum is a vascular plant that produces a single kind of spore and is, thus, called homosporous. A. Part of a plant with immature sporangia above and dehisced sporangia below. B. Immature sporangia. C. Mature sporangia with most of the spores already dispersed but a few still remaining in the bottoms of the sporangia.

Term:

Lycopod

Definition:

Referring to a vascular plant group that does not produce seeds. Lycopodium, Isoetes, and Selaginella are in this group but belong to different orders. Lycopodium is homosporous and the other two genera are heterosporous.

Related Terms:

Homospory (homosporous)
Heterospory (heterosporous)