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|accepted_name=Phlegmariurus
|accepted_authority=Holub
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Preslia
|place=36: 17, 21. 1964
|year=1964
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|common_names=Hanging fir-moss
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Lycopodiaceae;Phlegmariurus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Lycopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Phlegmariurus]]</div></div>
|etymology=based on epithet of Lycopodium phlegmaria; Greek phlegma, flame, and oura, tail; in reference to the tasslelike fertile portions of the plant
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>epiphytic or terrestrial, pendent [erect]. <b>Roots</b> produced in distal parts of shoots, migrating downward in cortex to emerge in substrate. <b>Horizontal</b> stems absent [present]. <b>Shoots</b> clustered, round in cross section, dichotomously branching, 1.5–5 mm diam. <b>Leaves</b> not in distinct ranks [ranked], imbricate or not, monomorphic (or sporophylls sometimes differentiated), appressed, ascending to spreading, linear to subulate, margins mostly entire [denticulate]. <b>Gemmiferous</b> branchlets and gemmae absent. <b>Sporangia</b> reniform, borne individually in axils of undifferentiated or slightly differentiated sporophylls [differentiated sporophylls in strobili]. <b>Spores</b> pitted to small-grooved, sides at equator convex and angles acute. <b>Gametophytes</b> nonphotosynthetic, mycorrhizal, mainly growing buried in humus on trees, branched, paraphysate with uniseriate hairs; ring meristem absent. <b>x</b> = 68.</span><!--

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|distribution=in tropical areas worldwide.
|discussion=<p>As construed here, <i>Phlegmariurus</i> is very large and diverse. Many groups have been tentatively suggested in this genus (B. Øllgaard 1987). Some of these ultimately may be recognized as subgenera or even genera.</p><!--
--><p>Species over 300 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Phlegmariurus
|authority=Holub
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Lycopodiaceae
|distribution=in tropical areas worldwide.
|reference=None
|publication title=Preslia
|publication year=1964
|special status=
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|genus=Phlegmariurus
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