A 407-million-year-old #plant’s leaves skipped the usual #Fibonacci spirals
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fossil-plant-leaves-fibonacci-spirals

Leaves and #sporangia developed in rare non-#FibonacciSpirals in early leafy plants https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg4014 by Holly-Anne Turner et al.

"#Lycopod leaves evolved separately from leaves in other types of #plants, but some modern #lycopods do exhibit Fibonacci spiraling. That suggests the spiraling patterns may have evolved separately in different lineages of plants"

Too many clubmosses, I am told. I don’t understand. I have less than 1% of them, which seems a very modest sample to me.

#Clubmosses #Lycopods #Huperzia

I have bagged myself a Selaginella wildenowii that looks to be actually genuine rather than the bullshit noniridescent lies peddled by most internet sellers 👍 This is spikemoss number 7, and lycopod number 9.

I may have a problem.

The problem is I need more lycopods.

#Lycopods #Selaginella #Lycopodium #Huperzia #Isoetes