Austrolycopodium magellanicum, synonym Lycopodium magellanicum, the Magellanic clubmoss,[2] is a species of vascular plant in the club moss family Lycopodiaceae.[1] The genus Austrolycopodium is accepted in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I),[3] but not in other classifications which submerge the genus in Lycopodium.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Lycophytes |
| Class: | Lycopodiopsida |
| Order: | Lycopodiales |
| Family: | Lycopodiaceae |
| Genus: | Austrolycopodium |
| Species: | A. magellanicum
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| Austrolycopodium magellanicum | |
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The species grows in the mountains of Latin America from Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic south as far as Tierra del Fuego, as well as a number of islands in the antarctic and subantarctic oceans (Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island, Amsterdam Island,[citation needed] South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Falkland Islands, Juan Fernández Islands, Marion Island, Prince Edward Islands, Iles Crozet, Iles Kerguelen).[5]
A number of natural products have been isolated from this plant, including magellanine, magellaninone, panticuline, acetyldihydrolycopodine, acetylfawcettiine, clavolonine (8b-hydroxylycopodine), deacetylfawcettiine, fawcettiine, lycopodine, lycodine, alpha-obscurine (2,3-dihydro-b-obscurine), and beta-obscurine.[6] Some of the molecules within this class are known inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase (AChE).[7]
References
edit- ^ a b c Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (November 2019). "Austrolycopodium magellanicum". Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. 8.11. Archived from the original on 2017-09-02. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
- ^ Burton, Robert; Croxall, John C. (2012). A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia. Princeton University Press. p. 176. ISBN 9780691156613.
- ^ PPG I (2016). "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 54 (6): 563–603. doi:10.1111/jse.12229.
- ^ Christenhusz, Maarten J.M. & Chase, Mark W. (2014). "Trends and concepts in fern classification". Annals of Botany. 113 (9): 571–594. doi:10.1093/aob/mct299. PMC 3936591. PMID 24532607.
- ^ "Family Lycopodiaceae, genus Lycopodium; world species list". Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
- ^ Isolation of Magellanine Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 1976, 54:(18) 2893-2899.
- ^ Review of Lycopodium alkaloids Nat. Prod. Rep.,2004, 21, 752-772.
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