''Diphasium scariosum'',

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''Lycopodium scariosum'', commonly known as spreading clubmoss or creeping club moss, is a species in the club moss family

Lycopodiaceae The Lycopodiaceae (class Lycopodiopsida, order Lycopodiales) are an old family of vascular plants, including all of the core clubmosses and firmosses, comprising 16 accepted genera and about 400 known species. This family originated about 380 mil ...

. The genus ''

Diphasium ''Diphasium'' is a genus of lycophytes in the family Lycopodiaceae. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), it is placed in the subfamily Lycopodioideae. Some sources do not recognize the genus, sinking it into ''Lyc ...

'' is accepted in the

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classification of 2016 (PPG I), but not in other classifications which submerge the genus in ''

Lycopodium ''Lycopodium'' (from Greek ''lykos'', wolf and ''podion'', diminutive of ''pous'', foot) is a genus of clubmosses, also known as ground pines or creeping cedars, in the family Lycopodiaceae. Two very different circumscriptions of the genus are i ...

''. ''D. scariosum'' is native to

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, and

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.T.E.R:R.A.I.N - Taranaki Educational Resource: Research, Analysis and Information Network (New Zealand), ''Lycopodium scariosum'' (Creeping club moss)Family Lycopodiaceae, genus ''Lycopodium''; world species list by Michael Hassler and Brian Swale
/ref> ''Diphasium scariosum'' has stems that lie on the ground, are multi branched and can grow to 2 m long. The leaves are flat and can be up to 4 mm long.

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* Lycopodiaceae Flora of New Zealand Flora of Australia Flora of Sabah Plants described in 1786 {{Lycophyte-stub