Club moss (Lycophytes)
Lycophytes such as Huperzia have sporophyte-dominant life cycles. Fossils are first evident in rocks originating 400 million years ago. Spores are produced at the base of small, club-shaped leaves; these spores are tetrahedral, and as a powder are highly flammable. Despite the name, it is not a moss, but a lycophyte.
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