English: Spreading clubmoss; Creeping club moss, is a species in the club moss family
Lycopodiaceae.
Synonym: Lycopodium scariosum
Region: Australia, New Zealand, Borneo.
BotanyStems: lying on the ground; multi branched; up to 2 m long.
Leaves: flat; up to 4 mm long.
TaxonomyThe genus Diphasium is accepted in the Pteridophyte
Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). Other classifications submerge the genus in Lycopodium.