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Must have been hard to figure out, given I had already posted the latin name and two common names.
Never made it down to your post, knew what it was from the git-go.
They are pretty cool - make spores like a moss but they have vascular tissue and a strobilus which is basically the precursor of a pine cone (just add seeds). Their relatives were tree sized in the carboniferous.
"Caption: Carboniferous forest. Artwork of a flooded forest containing primitive plant species that existed during the Carboniferous period (360 to 286 million years ago). These included Lepidodendron, an ancient lycopod also known as a scale tree. The Carboniferous forests gave rise to the coal deposits that fuel industry today."
The spores were used for flash photography, and are quite fun to play with -
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