Class Lycopodiate (Noun)
Meaning
Club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Plant fossils from the Devonian, Mississippian, and Pennsylvanian periods show the evolution of class lycopodiatae to more complex forms of plants.
- One other major group of early vascular plants, the lycopodiatae, underwent significant species divergence in the Devonian period.
- Within the class lycopodiatae, the order Lycopodiales contains club mosses and related forms like ground pines and spike mosses.
- Isoetales and Selaginellales are sometimes grouped as suborders of Lycopodiales within the class lycopodiatae, but they can also be classified independently.
- Many fossil lycopodiatae classes have provided important clues about the evolution and adaptation of ancient plant life.