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|accepted_name=Palhinhaea cernua
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Vasconcellos & Franco
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bol. Soc. Brot.
|place=ser. 2, 41: 25. 1967
|year=1967
}}
|common_names=Nodding club-moss
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Lycopodium cernuum
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=2: 1103. 1753
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Lycopodiaceae;Palhinhaea;Palhinhaea cernua
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Lycopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Palhinhaea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Palhinhaea cernua]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Roots </b>clustered at soil contacts of horizontal stem, 5–30 × 0.4–0.6 cm. <b>Horizontal</b> stems with leaves remote, linear-needlelike, recurved at base, upcurved at apex, 2.9–3.1 × 0.1–0.15 mm. <b>Upright</b> shoots to 45 × 3.5 mm, gradually diminishing and branched successively 3 times, 3–12 cm from base to form complex treelike habit. <b>Lateral</b> branchlets spreading-ascending, drooping at tips, 0.2–0.4 mm wide, leaves needlelike, recurved basally, upcurved apically, 2–2.5 × 0.1–0.2 mm, leaves and stems sometimes hairy near strobili. <b>Strobili</b> nodding at 60–80° to subtending vegetative branch, 0.4–0.8 × 0.15–0.2 cm. <b>Sporophylls</b> trowel-shaped, 1.5–2 × 0.7–0.8 mm, margins fringed, teeth to 0.2 mm, mostly branched.</span><!--

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|habitat=Wet depressions and ditches in pinelands, road banks
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;S.C.
|discussion=<p><i>Palhinhaea cernua</i> is a showy plant. This is probably the world's most abundant club-moss. The species overwinters as buried stem tips, the rest of the plant dying.</p>
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name=Palhinhaea cernua
|authority=(Linnaeus) Vasconcellos & Franco
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Lycopodium cernuum
|family=Lycopodiaceae
|habitat=Wet depressions and ditches in pinelands, road banks
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bol. Soc. Brot.
|publication year=1967
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V2/V2_439.xml
|genus=Palhinhaea
|species=Palhinhaea cernua
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