DENDROLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lycopodium is a genus of clubmosses which is also known as ground pines or creeping cedar. They are flowerless, vascular, terrestrial or epiphytic plants, with widely branched, erect, prostrate or creeping stems, with small, simple, needle-like or scale-like leaves that cover the stem and branches thickly.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lycopodium clavatum (common club moss, stag’s-horn clubmoss, running clubmoss, or ground pine) is the most widespread species in the genus Lycopodium in the clubmoss family.

Detailed explanation-3: -They have spore cases that sit ontop (adaxial) of specialized leaves called sporophylls. These sporophylls are usually clumped together to create a cone with a club-like appearance. The moss-like leaves combined with the club-like cones is how they they got the name “clubmoss".