Austrolycopodium confertum(Willd.) Holub

WFO wfo-0001123673 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Austrolycopodium confertum, photographed by Nicolas Olejnik
fig. a Nicolas Olejnik, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-12-07 / obs. 29163339
Austrolycopodium confertum, photographed by Nicolas Olejnik
fig. b Nicolas Olejnik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29163305
Austrolycopodium confertum, photographed by lornamolden
fig. c lornamolden, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 134134303
Austrolycopodium confertum, photographed by Nicolas Olejnik
fig. d Nicolas Olejnik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29163347
Austrolycopodium confertum, photographed by Nicolas Olejnik
fig. e Nicolas Olejnik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29163312
Austrolycopodium confertum, photographed by lornamolden
fig. f lornamolden, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 134134330

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Austrolycopodium confertum is native: Falkland Is., Argentina South, Chile South Falkland Is.Argentina SouthChile South
Native distribution of Austrolycopodium confertum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina South AGS SOUTHERN AMERICA
Chile South CLS
Falkland Is. FAL ANTARCTICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Lycopodium barrosii (Looser) Herter
  • Lycopodium chonoticum Phil.
  • Lycopodium confertum Willd.
  • Lycopodium confertum var. barrosii Looser

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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