Selaginella - Wikipedia It is usually treated as the only genus in the family Selaginellaceae, with over 750 known species This family is distinguished from Lycopodiaceae (the clubmosses) by having scale-leaves bearing a ligule and by having spores of two types
Selaginellaceae (Spikemoss Family) - FSUS The result for those who believe that the diversity of Selaginellaceae is best reflected by recognition of multiple genera is that the genus Selaginella is now reduced to the anomalous, first-branching ('basal') clade of 2 species distributed circumboreally
Family: Selaginellaceae — spike-moss family - Go Botany Family: Selaginellaceae — spike-moss family Species in the family Selaginellaceae are small, annual or perennial herbs; the perennial species may be evergreen The stems are simple to abundantly forked Leaves are scale -like, single-veined, and may have more than one shape on a single plant
Spike moss | Description, Taxonomy, Major Species, Facts - Britannica spike moss, (family Selaginellaceae), family of more than 700 species of mossy or fernlike seedless vascular plants of the order Selaginellales The family consists of a single genus, Selaginella They are widely distributed in all parts of the world, particularly in the tropics
Selaginellaceae The Selaginellaceae are terrestrial or epiphytic heterosporous, protostelic vascular plants comprising a single genus and about 700 species
Phylogeny and systematics of the New World Selaginellaceae in a global . . . In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in Selaginellaceae including treatments in regional floras and the description of new species, but a comprehensive review of the phylogeny and taxonomy of the New World taxa is still lacking
Selaginellaceae in Flora of North America @ efloras. org Genera 1, over 700 species (38 species in the flora): worldwide, primarily in tropical and subtropical regions Selaginellaceae traditionally include only one genus of living plants, Selaginella (A C Jermy 1990b; R M Tryon and A F Tryon 1982)
Selaginellaceae - University of California, Berkeley Stem: wiry, generally rooting adventitiously [or not] from downward-growing leafless shoot-like structures (rhizophores), branching variable, generally not fragile when dry