Phylloglossum, a
genus in the
clubmoss family Huperziaceae, is a small plant superficially resembling a tiny
grass plant, growing with a rosette of slender
leaves 2-5 cm long from an underground
bulb-like
root. It has a single central stem up to 5 cm tall bearing a
spore-producing cone at the apex, and was previously classified variously in the family
Lycopodiaceae or in its own family the Phylloglossaceae, but recent
genetic evidence demonstrates it is most closely related to the genus
Huperzia and is a sister clade to the genus
Phlegmariurus, which was formerly included in
Huperzia.