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Mazon Monday #312: Sigillaria tessellata #fossils #paleontology #MazonCreek #MazonMonday #lycopod #lycophyte #pennsylvanian #carboniferous

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An extreme close-up of a plant that grows in stalks covered in thick triangular scales with tiny white hairs at the tips. The scales range from rusty-reddish-brown to green.

Another extreme close-up of one of my best friend plants, Selaginella! This is Selaginella scopulorum (Rocky Mountain Spikemoss), which was a new species for me this year.

#selaginella #lycophyte #plant #plantphotography #macrophotography #inaturalist #bcparks #okanagan #britishcolumbia #canada

A mat of small, bristly plants with bright green growing tips and brown-to-white older stems grows up against a rock.

More of my beloved Selaginella wallacei, I love finding it no matter where I am. Lycophytes represent a fascinating part of the evolutionary history of plants.

#selaginella #lycophyte #plant #macro #bcparks #inaturalist #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

Clubmosses are an ancient group of plants. Unlike the even more ancient mosses and liverworts, clubmosses are vascular plants. They can move water and nutrients through vascular tissue #clubmoss #lycophyte #plants #iroquoisnationalwildliferefuge #geneseecounty #wny

Fossil Friday #276: Lycopodites meekii #fossils #paleontlogy #FossilFriday #MazonCreek #wilmington #lycopod #lycophyte #lepidodendron

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A patch of a wiry plant with dried-out, whitish stems and living green tufts of scaly leaves, with a thin margin of rust-coloured leaves at the base of the green tufts.

Selaginella wallacei, one of my most-observed species, and probably the most common lycophyte in southern BC.

#lycophyte #plant #selaginella #macro #macrophotography #inaturalist #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

A tuft of long, thin, scaly plant stems growing from rocky soul. The live scale-leaves are a light green, with rusty brown near the base of the living leaves, and older growth is desiccated and grey.

Selaginella wallacei (Wallace's spikemoss) is a lycophyte, one of the oldest groups of land plants, with identifiable members represented in the fossil record as early as 425 million years ago.

#selaginella #spikemoss #lycophyte #plant #inaturalist #macro #okanagan #similkameen #canada

A digital drawing of a green dragon on a dark brown background with a long tail split into several fronds covered in green leaves. The dragon has two horns on its head and a whisker growing from each side of its muzzle. Around the dragon are clusters of moths.

Commission prize for a giveaway on IG last year 🌿

Lycopodium dendroidium dragon with many little moth friends

#dragon #lycophyte #insects #moths

Selaginella spikemoss

A common understory plant in the rainforest, but still favorite as we imagine their extinct tree-sized relatives covering the earth during the Carboniferous... this is Selaginella delicatula #Borneo #lycophyte

Fossil Friday #216: Lycopodites meekii #fossils #paleontology #MazonCreek #FossilFriday #lycophyte #lycopod #pennsylvanian

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Our new paper on #lycophyte genomics are out in
PNAS! We found lots synteny remained even after 350 million years of divergence!! Weird!! @wickellomics.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....