Phlegmariurus talpiphilus (B.Øllg.) B.Øllg., Phytotaxa

Øllgaard, Benjamin, Kessler, Michael & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. II. Lycopodiaceae, Phytotaxa 334 (3), pp. 255-294 : 287

Phlegmariurus talpiphilus (B.Øllg.) B.Øllg., Phytotaxa 57: 19. 2012 . ( Fig. 23 )

= Huperzia talpiphila B.Øllg., Fl. Ecuador 33: 44. 1988.

Range: — Ecuador and Bolivia (CO, SC).

Ecology: —Rare; Tucumano-Bolivian forest, páramos, pastures; 3000–3070 m, to 4100 m elsewhere.

Notes: —This species is unusual due to its subterranean shoots (sometimes shallowly so) that appear to be geotropic. It resembles P. hypogaeus in the subterranean shoots, but P. talpiphilus apparently occurs in rather solid soil, and when, occasionally, its underground shoot becomes exposed, it curves down into solid soil instead of becoming foliose and prostrate, like in P. hypogaeus (observation from Ecuador).

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FIGURE 23. Phlegmariurus talpiphilus, growth habit (Øllgaard 100641, Ecuador, AAU).