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Selaginella cinerascens

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Isotype of Selaginella cinerascens A. A. Eaton [family SELAGINELLACEAE]
Isotype of Selaginella cinerascens A. A. Eaton [family SELAGINELLACEAE]
Isotype of Selaginella cinerascens A.A.Eaton [family SELAGINELLACEAE]
Isotype of Selaginella cinerascens A.A. Eaton [family SELAGINELLACEAE]
Isotype of Selaginella cinerascens A.A.Eaton [family SELAGINELLACEAE]
Filed as Selaginella cinerascens A.A.Eaton [family SELAGINELLACEAE]
Type? of Selaginella cinerascens Eaton [family SELAGINELLACEAE]
Isotype of Selaginella cinerascens A. A. Eaton [family PTERIDOPHYTE]
Isotype of Selaginella cinerascens A.A. Eaton [family SELAGINELLACEAE]
Holotype of Selaginella cinerascens A. A. Eaton [family SELAGINELLACEAE]
Type of Selaginella cinerascens A.A. Eat. [family SELAGINELLACEAE]
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Identification
Isotype of Selaginella cinerascens A.A.Eaton [family SELAGINELLACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by not verified, Selaginella cinerascens A.A.Eaton [family SELAGINELLACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Selaginella cinerascens
  • Lycopodium bryoides
Common name
  • Gray spike-moss, Flora of North America Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for Selaginella cinerascens A. A. Eaton [family SELAGINELLACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 2,
Names
Selaginella cinerascens A. A. Eaton [family SELAGINELLACEAE], Fern Bull., 7: 33. 1899
Treatment Author(s)
Iván A. Valdespino
Information
Plants terrestrial, forming loose to compact mats. Stems creeping, not readily fragmenting, upperside and underside structurally slightly different, irregularly forked, without budlike arrested branches, tips straight; main stem indeterminate, lateral branches determinate, ascending, 1--2-forked. Rhizophores borne on upperside of stems, throughout stem length, (0.17--)0.2--0.3 mm diam. Leaves monomorphic, not in defined pseudowhorls, loosely appressed, ascending, green, linear-lanceolate, (1--)2.5--3 X (0.25--)0.4--0.6 mm (leaves in secondary and tertiary branches smaller); abaxial ridges inconspicuous; base rounded and adnate or cuneate and slightly decurrent, glabrous, seldom pubescent; margins short-ciliate, cilia transparent, scattered, ascending, 0.02--0.75 mm; apex plane, blunt, acute to slightly acuminate (not distinctly bristled). Strobili solitary, 2--4 mm; sporophylls deltate-ovate to lanceolate-ovate, abaxial ridges not prominent, base glabrous, margins short-ciliate, apex not keeled, acute.
Altitude range
0--200 m
Distribution
Mexico in Baja California.USA Calif.
Discussion
The light brown and grayish mats, short lateral branches, narrow stem, and short strobili distinguish Selaginella cinerascens from all other species in the flora, in which it has no close relatives. R. M. Tryon (1955) related S . cinerascens to S . arsenei Weatherby from Mexico. Selaginella cinerascens also closely resembles S . nivea Alston from Madagascar. In California S . cinerascens is known only from San Diego County.

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