Selaginella flexuosa Spring

Smith, Alan R. & Kessler, Michael, 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. III. Selaginellaceae, Phytotaxa 344 (3), pp. 248-258 : 253

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.344.3.5

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scientific name

Selaginella flexuosa Spring
status

 

Selaginella flexuosa Spring View in CoL , Flora 21: 197. 1838.

= Selaginella tarapotensis Baker, J. Bot 21(45): 98(–99). 1883.

Range: —Southern Mexico to Panama; Colombia to Bolivia (LP); southeastern Brazil.

Ecology: —Fairly common; terrestrial, rarely epiphytic, in humid montane forests, often on shaded banks; 500– 1750 m.

Notes: —Compared to Selaginella truncata , the lateral leaves are more spaced along the main stems, there is less contrast in color between the adaxial and abaxial sides of the plants, and the leaves are somewhat smaller.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Lycopodiopsida

Order

Selaginellales

Family

Selaginellaceae

Genus

Selaginella

Loc

Selaginella flexuosa Spring

Smith, Alan R. & Kessler, Michael 2018
2018
Loc

Selaginella flexuosa

Spring 1838: 197
1838
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