Huperzia beiteliana
Collection data
Classification & Common Names
- Class: Lycopodiopsida
- Family: Lycopodiaceae
- Genus: Huperzia Bernh.
- Species: Huperzia beiteliana Mickel
Collection Data
- Collection Date: 25-III-2014
- Collection Number: 3582
- Primary collector: M. Sundue
- Collected by: M. Sundue F. B. Matos & R. Torres C.
- Determined by: M. Sundue
- Habitat: Pine - Oak Forest
- Habit: Terrestrial
- Specimen locations: MEXU, VT
Collection Location
- General location: Cerro Pelón
- Country: Mexico
- State or Province: Oaxaca
- Municipality: Distrito Ixtlán Municipio Santiago Comaltepec
- Coordinates: ,
- Elevation: 2474 m
About the Author
Michael Sundue
My field work is centered in Colombia, and Papua New Guinea. I am based at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E). If you have any ferns that you want identified, please send them to me!
Really cool plant. When Mickel described this species (Mickel and Valdespino, 1992; Brittonia 44:312-321) he discussed its relationships to the circumboreal species Huperzia selago. He distinguished it from that species by its larger size, disjunct distribution (this is more than 1000km from the nearest H. selago population) and larger gemmae. One thing I noticed from these photos and this specimen (which is not clear in Mickel and Valdespino 1992) is that the gemmae are borne continuously along the shoot. This differs from Huperzia selago, which has gemmae confined to zones at the summit of each year’s growth. The gemmae of this species are also larger and have more acute apices.