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Selaginella bigelovii


Higher Taxonomy
Family: SelaginellaceaeView Description 
Common Name: SPIKE-MOSS FAMILY
Stem: wiry, generally rooting adventitiously [or not] from downward-growing leafless shoot-like structures (rhizophores), branching variable, generally not fragile when dry. Leaf: many, simple, overlapped, appressed, small, +- scale-like, 1-veined, generally grooved abaxially [or not] nearly to tip, generally +- of 2 kinds ("under-leaves" under main stem, "over-leaves" over it). Cone: paired or 1, terminal, generally 4-sided, fertile leaves not like sterile, generally strongly keeled. Sporangia: 1 per leaf axil, 2 kinds, male (generally more distal in cones, spores many, small), female (spores (1)4, large, generally orange-yellow).
Genera In Family: 1 genus, +- 700 species: worldwide, generally tropics, warm temperate. Note: Despite recent progress in understanding relationships (Zhou et al. 2016 Cladistics 32:360--389; Weststrand & Korall 2016 Amer J Bot 103:2136--2159), future taxonomic changes in the family are likely.
eFlora Treatment Author: Paul Wilson & Thomas J. Rosatti
Scientific Editor: Alan R. Smith, Thomas J. Rosatti, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Genus: SelaginellaView DescriptionDichotomous Key


Common Name: SPIKE-MOSS

Etymology: (Latin: small Selago, ancient name for some Lycopodium) Note: Some cultivated as groundcover, curiosity: Selaginella kraussiana; Selaginella lepidophylla (Hook. & Grev.) Spring, resurrection plant. Hand lens, generally at +- 20×, required for leaves (shape, margin, awn at tip), cones.
Unabridged Note: All native California taxa are in the Rupestrae clade (Weststrand & Korall 2016 Amer J Bot 103:2160--2169), also treated as section Homoeophyllae (Zhou et al. 2015 Taxon 64:1117--1140) or, formerly, the nomenclaturally ambiguous subgenus Tetragonostachys (Jermy 1986 Fern Gazette 13:117--118). Selaginella shared a common ancestor with Isoetes, +- 380 million years ago (Larsén & Rydin 2016 Int J Pl Sci 177:157--174).
Selaginella bigelovii Underw.
NATIVE
Habit: Plant a series of +- erect shoots without rhizophores of +- determinate growth from rhizome; green aging tan then gray. Leaf: of main stems 1.5--2.7 mm, 0.4--0.6 mm wide, linear to narrowly lanceolate, not decurrent, base hairy on surface; awn 0.3--0.7 mm, +- rigid, toothed. Cone: 0.4--1.5 cm.
Ecology: Open sites, mineral soil on rock outcrops, amid shrubs; Elevation: < 2000 m. Bioregional Distribution: s NW, s SN, SnJV, CW, SW, sw edge DMoj, DSon; Distribution Outside California: Baja California.
Jepson eFlora Author: Paul Wilson & Thomas J. Rosatti
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)

Previous taxon: Selaginella asprella
Next taxon: Selaginella cinerascens

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Citation for this treatment: Paul Wilson & Thomas J. Rosatti 2012, Selaginella bigelovii, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=44043, accessed on December 03, 2024.

Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on December 03, 2024.

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Geographic subdivisions for Selaginella bigelovii:
s NW, s SN, SnJV, CW, SW, sw edge DMoj, DSon
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