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Selaginella marginata Spring

  • 1. University Herbarium, 1001 Valley Life Sciences Bldg. # 2465, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 - 2465
  • 2. Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH- 8008 Zurich, Switzerland

Description

Selaginella marginata (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Spring, Flora 21: 194. 1838.

Range: — Mexico to Venezuela; Bolivia (BE, LP, SC) and Brazil to Uruguay and northern Argentina.

Ecology: —Common; terrestrial and on rocks, forming colonies, with creeping stems bearing erect or suberect “fronds”, in semihumid forests and forest edges; to 1200 m.

Notes: —Distinguished from similar articulate species by having a single large peltate auricle (vs. one or sometimes two lateral smaller auricles) at the base of each medial leaf and by the whitish margins on the medial and lateral leaves (vs. greenish).

Notes

Published as part of Smith, Alan R. & Kessler, Michael, 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. III. Selaginellaceae, pp. 248-258 in Phytotaxa 344 (3) on page 254, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.344.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13719508

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Spring
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Selaginellales
Family
Selaginellaceae
Genus
Selaginella
Species
marginata
Taxon rank
species