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Club Moss Collection

Background imageClub Moss Collection: Common club-moss, Lycopodium clavatum

Common club-moss, Lycopodium clavatum. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Background imageClub Moss Collection: Lycopodium magellanicum, club moss

Lycopodium magellanicum, club moss
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Lycopodium glabellum

Background imageClub Moss Collection: Baragwanathia longifolia

Baragwanathia longifolia
Fossil from the Natural History Museum s, Palaeontology Department

Background imageClub Moss Collection: Asteroxylon mackiei, clubmoss

Asteroxylon mackiei, clubmoss
A wax model reconstruction of the Early Devonian plant Asteroxylon mackiei, a clubmoss, approximately 10cm tall. Original specimen discovered at Rhynie Chert, Scotland

Background imageClub Moss Collection: Huperzia phlegmaria, tassel fern

Huperzia phlegmaria, tassel fern
Plate 1043 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageClub Moss Collection: Cyperites bicarinatus, tree clubmoss

Cyperites bicarinatus, tree clubmoss
Leaves of tree clubmoss (Cyperites bicarinatus) dating back to the late carboniferous period, discovered at Kilmersdon, near Radstock, Somerset, England. Specimen measures about 15 cms

Background imageClub Moss Collection: Baragwanathia longifolia, clubmoss

Baragwanathia longifolia, clubmoss
A fossilised clubmoss (Baragwanathia longifolia) showing a dense bristly covering of hairs or spiny leaves. Specimen dates back to Late Silurian or Early Devonian, from Victoria, Australia

Background imageClub Moss Collection: Bothrodendron minutifoliu, fossil clubmoss

Bothrodendron minutifoliu, fossil clubmoss
Shown here is a fossilised leafy twig of a clubmoss originating from Carboniferous rocks near Barnsley, England

Background imageClub Moss Collection: Sigillaria rugosa, fossil club moss

Sigillaria rugosa, fossil club moss
This section of a club moss trunk displays leaf scars where leaves grew straight out from. Club mosses could grow up to heights of 30 metres


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