Juniper ( Lat. Dendrolycopodium juniperoideum ) is a perennial herbaceous evergreen spore plant, up to 15 cm tall, a species of the genus Dendrolycopodium .
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 General view of the plant, Sakhalin |
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| Order: | Plain ( Lycopodiales DC. Ex Bercht. & J. Presl , 1820 ) |
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Dendrolycopodium juniperoideum ( Sw. ) A.Haines (2003) |
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- Lycopodium juniperinum Spreng.
- Lycopodium juniperoideum Sw. basionym
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Botanical DescriptionLeaves ( phyloids ) are evenly spaced around the axis, crescent-shaped upward, lanceolate, 5 mm long and 0.5 mm wide.
Spikelets ( strobilloids ) sessile up to 2.5 cm long and 5 mm wide.
Sporophylloid ovate, elongated to the tip, with a wavy serrated edge, at the base with short kidney sporangia.
Distribution and habitatIt grows in burned areas, stone birch trees , in mixed and coniferous forests .
General distributionRussian Far East, Siberia, North America, Sino-Japanese region
NotesLiterature- Petukhov A.V., Kordyukov A.V., Baranchuk-Chervonny L.N. Atlas of vascular plants in the vicinity of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk / Otv. ed. D.A. Petelin. - 2nd ed., Rev. and additional .. - Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk: Akon, 2010. - S. 22. - 220 p. - ISBN 978-5-904209-05-6 .
Links- Juniper plun : information on a taxon in the Plantarium project (identifier of plants and an illustrated atlas of species). (Retrieved July 18, 2012)