A small, two-branched green plant in the center of the photo sprouts from a V-shaped gemma.

Dispersal through gemmae: a small Huperzia lucidula sprouts from a gemma.

Look at the base of this young shoot, and you can see that it sprouted from a gemma. I saw about five young shoots around this size in the immediate vicinity, on a steep oak-heath slope bare of leaf litter. I checked upslope and there were no colonies of H. lucidula, so it’s not clear where the gemmae dispersed from.