Selaginella subg. Selaginella

Palisot de Beauvois
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 2. Mentioned on page 40.

Stems radially symmetric, not articulate; creeping stems with closely spaced, dichotomous forks; upright stems unbranched; vessel elements absent. Rhizophores absent. Leaves loosely spirally arranged, monomorphic, lanceolate to lanceolate-triangular, thin, soft; margins short-spiny; stomates scattered throughout abaxial surface; axillary leaves absent. Strobili solitary, cylindric. Sporophylls loosely spirally arranged, larger and slightly different shape from vegetative leaves, most sporophylls fertile, megasporophylls and microsporophylls same size, auricles absent.

Distribution

Circumboreal and Pacific Islands (Hawaii)

Discussion

Species 2 (1 in the flora).

"thin" is not a number.

Iván A. Valdespino +
Palisot de Beauvois +
Circumboreal and Pacific Islands (Hawaii) +
dichotomous +
monomorphic +
lanceolate;lanceolate-triangular +
globose +, ovoid +  and tetrahedral +
tetrahedral +
Prodr. Aethéogam. +
2 +  and 4 +
karrfalt1981a +  and page1989a +
adjacently +  and monomorphic +
unbranched +  and not articulate +
dimorphic +, climbing +  and cespitose +
Selaginella subg. Selaginella +
Selaginella +
subgenus +
perennial +  and annual +
epiphytic +  and hemiepiphytic +
12 +, 11 +, 10 +, 9 +, 8 +  and 7 +