Botrychium lanceolatum

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Lanceleaf Moonwort
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Ophioglossales
Family: Ophioglossaceae
Genus: Botrychium
Species:
B. lanceolatum
Binomial name
Botrychium lanceolatum
(S.G. Gmel.) Angstr.
Synonyms

Osmunda lanceolataS.G.Gmel.

Botrychium lanceolatum, known as lanceleaf moonwort, is a species of plant belonging to the family Ophioglossaceae. [1]

Its native range is subarctic and temperate Northern Hemisphere including Greenland. [2] [1]

Taxonomy

Botrychium lanceolatum was first described as Osmunda lanceolata by Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin in 1768. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Botrychium lanceolatum (S.G.Gmel.) Ångstr. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  2. Grønlands flora. Tyge Wittrock Böcher (3. reviderede udgave ed.). København: P. Haase & Sons. 1978. ISBN   87-559-0385-1. OCLC   183098604.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. Gmelin, Samuel Gottlieb (1768). "Observationes et descriptiones botanicae". Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperalis Petropolitanae (in Latin). 12: 508–521.