Austrolycopodium magellanicum
Species of clubmoss in the family Lycopodiaceae
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
| Austrolycopodium magellanicum | |
|---|---|
| |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Lycophytes |
| Class: | Lycopodiopsida |
| Order: | Lycopodiales |
| Family: | Lycopodiaceae |
| Genus: | Austrolycopodium |
| Species: | A. magellanicum |
| Binomial name | |
| Austrolycopodium magellanicum | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
| |
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]
