Lycopodium magellanicum

Lycopodium magellanicum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Lycopodiophyta
Class:	Lycopodiopsida
Order:	Lycopodiales
Family:	Lycopodiaceae
Genus:	Lycopodium
Species:	L. magellanicum
Binomial name
Lycopodium magellanicum (P.Beauv.) Sw. 1806
Synonyms[1]
Synonymy Lepidotis magellanica P. Beauv. Lycopodium clavatum var. magellanicum Hook. f. Austrolycopodium magellanicum (Beauv.) Holub Lycopodium pichinchense Hook. Lycopodium spurium Willd. Lycopodium uranii Herter Austrolycopodium erectum (Philippi) Holub Lycopodium looseri Herter Lycopodium erectum Philippi

Lycopodium magellanicum is a species of club moss that falls into the Lycopodium genus. It 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 island in the antarctic and subantarctic oceans of the world (Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Falkland Islands, Juan Fernández Islands, Marion Island, Prince Edward Islands, Iles Crozet, Iles Kerguelen).^[1]

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.^[2] Some of the molecules within this class are known inhibitors of Acetylcholinesterase (AChE). ^[3]

References

1. Family Lycopodiaceae, genus Lycopodium; world species list
2. Isolation of Magellanine Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 1976, 54:(18) 2893-2899.
3. Review of Lycopodium alkaloids Nat. Prod. Rep.,2004, 21, 752-772.