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
- The ancient trees that were part of the extinct Lepidodendrales belong to the lycopodiates group of ancient club mosses.
- The Lepidodendrales or scale trees are the most well-known of the lycopodiates.
- Botanists studying ancient plant life found evidence that lycopodiates were varied, with different structures within the four groups.
- Further research revealed a division of vascular plants that contained lycopodiates that may date back over 400 million years.
- Club mosses in these four orders (Lycopodiales, Isoetales, Selaginellales, and extinct Lepidodendrales) are classified as lycopodiates.