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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Selaginellaceae
Selaginella

Citation: P. Beauv., Mag. Encycl. 4:478 (1804).

Derivation: Diminutive of selago, the Latin name of a plant believed to be Lycopodium selago.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Selaginellas.

Description:
Sporophytes usually terrestrial, annual or perennial, herbaceous; leaves microphyllous, spirally arranged but commonly dimorphic (e.g. S. kraussiana) with the lateral leaves 2-ranked and the third row much smaller and scale-like on the lower surface; sporophylls aggregated together to form strobili; sporangia variously arranged in the strobili, solitary in the bases of the sporophylls, globular or compressed.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:
1. Leaves alike, spirally arranged; stems erect
S. gracillima 1.
1. Leaves dimorphic, 2-ranked; stems creeping
S. kraussiana 2.

Author: Not yet available

image of FSA1_Selaginella.jpg
Image source: fig. 17p in J.P. Jessop and H.R. Toelken Ed. 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

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