Selaginella marginata (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Spring

Smith, Alan R. & Kessler, Michael, 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. III. Selaginellaceae, Phytotaxa 344 (3), pp. 248-258 : 254

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13719649

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scientific name

Selaginella marginata (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Spring
status

 

Selaginella marginata (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Spring View in CoL , 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).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Lycopodiopsida

Order

Selaginellales

Family

Selaginellaceae

Genus

Selaginella

Loc

Selaginella marginata (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Spring

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

Selaginella marginata (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.)

Spring 1838: 194
1838
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