A blue background with a mug of coffee and two books; on the left 'Michigan Ferns & Lycophytes' and right 'Ferns of New Zealand'.

Well it's a cold and wet #FernFriday, so time to sit down with some new books and explore distant lands... #Michigan #NewZealand #lycophytes

UBC

Assistant Professor position in non-seed plant diversity ( #bryophytes, #ferns, #lycophytes) Department of #Botany of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver:
botany.ubc.ca/job-postings...
⚠️ Deadline is soon, December 19.
#Paleobotany is explicitly included 🌿⛏️

#Lycopodiopsida is a class of vascular plants also known as lycopsids,[1] lycopods, or #lycophytes. Members of the class are also called clubmosses, firmosses, spikemosses and quillworts. They have dichotomously branching

#Lycopodiopsida is a class of vascular plants also known as lycopsids,[1] lycopods, or #lycophytes. Members of the class are also called clubmosses, firmosses, spikemosses and quillworts. They have dichotomously branching

The #lycophytes, when broadly circumscribed, are a group of vascular plants that include the clubmosses. They are sometimes placed in a division Lycopodiophyta or Lycophyta or in a subdivision Lycopodiophytina. They are one of the oldest lineages of extant (living) vascular plants; the

The #lycophytes, when broadly circumscribed, are a group of vascular plants that include the clubmosses. They are sometimes placed in a division Lycopodiophyta or Lycophyta or in a subdivision Lycopodiophytina. They are one of the oldest lineages of extant (living) vascular plants; the

I've moved my Selaginella uncinata to a north-facing windowsill, where it is happily & beautifully iridescent.
#Lycophytes 🌱🌿🧪🔬

The cover of the April 2025 issue of the American Journal of Botany, featuring a photo of the endangered Nipomo Lupine (Lupinus nipomensis) flowering in its extant habitat. [Photo Credit: Justin C. Luong.]

The latest issue of #AJB is now online at bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197...!

Check out these issue highlights at botany.org/file.php?fil....

#botany #plantscience #mistletoes #bryophytes #ferns #lycophytes #fossils #pollination

Close up of a small green columnar reproductive structure on a tiny ground plant.

Close up of the dimorphic leaves of a tiny ground cover plant.

Well the Selaginella douglasii (Douglas' selaginella) seems to enjoy Welsh winters! A beautiful little Spikemoss native to Oregon, Washington and Idaho #Lycophytes

flat branched tree clubmoss growing in the woods, looks like a pine sapling. Some people call it princess pine.

most like also flat-branched tree clubmoss that hasn’t developed it’s identifying traits yet

another specimen

a smaller specimen

Important announcement: These are NOT Christmas wreathes. #lycophytes #clubmoss #princesspine #plantterrorism #rareplants

A circular diagram resembling a moth atop five colorful geometrical figures.

The self-replicating cellular organization of shoot apical #meristems

New #AJB research by Étienne Couturier, @paulallanos.bsky.social, Antoine Lizée, Sébastien Besson & Jacques Dumais

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #plantscience #bryophytes #lycophytes #ferns

fan clubmoss looks like a spiraling cedar sapling.

This is called fan clubmoss or "groundcedar". It's not cedar nor moss, but a lycophyte. Lycophytes are one of the most ancient groups of extant vascular plants and once dominated the Carboniferous swamp forests of the late Devonian period. #paleoswamps #swamplife #plants #lycophytes #naturesky

Great article by @jcarlosvillarreal.bsky.social and @kathrinrousk.bsky.social! Just want to add that #ferns and #lycophytes are also “overlooked, inconspicuous plants — hidden in the shadows” 😉

Importance of habit and environmental characteristics in shaping patterns of richness and range size of ferns and lycophytes in the Atlantic Forest Premise Ferns and lycophytes, the two spore-bearing lineages of vascular plants, share a unique life cycle, and because of several morpho-ecophysiological similarities, are usually investigated as a.....

New paper in American Journal of Botany using @gbif.org mediated data:

Importance of habit and environmental characteristics in shaping patterns of richness and range size of #ferns and #lycophytes in the Atlantic Forest 🇧🇷

#CiteTheDOI: ✅

https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16437

Lycopods on a forest floor

You ever just get down here and try to imagine what it was like when these buggers ruled the whole forest canopy? Yeah, me too. #iamabotanist #Lycophytes

Lycophytes my beloved 🥺 #nature #lycophytes #plants

A multi-part infographic featuring two maps showing species richness and range size patterns for ferns and lycophytes: Left Map (Ferns): The areas marked in orange represent regions with high species richness and low ranges (rich-low range areas). Areas in green represent regions with low species richness and high ranges (poor-high range), which are concentrated on the upper and lower limits of the biome. Right Map (Lycophytes): This map follows the same color pattern to depict species richness and range size patterns for lycophytes. Section 2 (bottom-left corner), a graphical illustration shows the drivers of high richness and low range sizes of ferns and lycophytes from the Atlantic Forest. An upward arrow illustrates factors contributing to high species richness. For ferns: High species richness is associated with habit, endemism, climate, and soil characteristics (left circle). For lycophytes: High species richness relates to habit and endemism (right circle). A downward arrow shows factors contributing to small range sizes. For ferns: Low range sizes are associated with habit, climate, and soil characteristics (left circle). For lycophytes: Low range sizes are primarily associated with habit (right circle). The map shows overlapping areas of rich-low range and poor-high range regions for ferns (orange) and lycophytes (green) in the Atlantic Forest. The purple regions highlight the common areas between these two categories. Dark green areas represent existing Protected Areas within the biome.

Importance of habit & environmental characteristics in shaping patterns of richness & range size of #ferns & #lycophytes in the Atlantic Forest

New #AJB research by Amabily Bohn, Elivane Capellesso, Paulo Labiak, Andrés Lira-Noriega et al.
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #conservation #biodiversity

The lycophytes, when broadly circumscribed, are a group of vascular plants that include the clubmosses. They are sometimes placed in a division Lycopodiophyta or Lycophyta or in a

The #lycophytes, when broadly circumscribed, are a group of vascular plants that include the clubmosses. They are sometimes placed in a division Lycopodiophyta or Lycophyta or in a

Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes Program Overview Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes is a special course of the Organization for Tropical Studies (OET). It is the fourth time this course has been offered. This course will provide a...

Tropical #Ferns and #Lycophytes field course in Costa Rica. With Eddie Watkins, Robbin Moran, and me (@avascog). Please share 💚🌿. Link to apply: tropicalstudies.org/course/tropi...