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Palhinhaea cernua
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Palhinhaea cernua, synonym Lycopodiella cernua and Lycopodium cernuum, is a plant in the family Lycopodiaceae, commonly known as the staghorn clubmoss. The Hawaiian name for the plant is wāwaeʻiole, or "rat's foot". It has a substantial number of scientific synonyms in several genera. The genus Palhinhaea is accepted in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016, but not in other classifications which submerge the genus in Lycopodiella. It is the largest of the clubmosses, having rhizomes up to 5 m (16 ft) in length, with leafy uprights up to 2.5 m in height.
- Family
- Lycopodiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Palhinhaea cernua
- Slug
- palhinhaea-cernua
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Lycopodiaceae
- Genus
- Palhinhaea
- Species
- cernua
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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