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Selaginella nivea

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Name

Identification
Selaginella nivea Alston [family SELAGINELLACEAE ] (stored under name);
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Flora

Entry for Selaginella nivea Alston [family SELAGINELLACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 22, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Selaginella nivea Alston [family SELAGINELLACEAE], [in Perrier, Acad. Malgache, Cat. Pl. Madag., Ptérid.: 71 (1932) nom. nud.] in Dansk Bot. Ark. 7: 194 (1932). Type from Madagascar.
Information
Creeping plants with primary branches 4–7 mm. long, 1–4 furcate; leafy stems not obviously dorsiventral. Leaves 1.5–2.0 x 0.5 mm., bluish-green, soon becoming opaque-white, linear-lanceolate, adnate at the base, apex acute or acuminate ending in an opaque white straight seta i as long as the blade, margins with short cilia above becoming piliform towards the base, rather squarrose at the apex forming club-shaped branch tips; lower leaves soon becoming papyraceous and whitish (or colourless) lying close to the stem and soon breaking away. Strobilus 2.5 mm., forming at top of lowermost secondary branch; sporophylls in 4 ranks, those on the upper side lanceolate-ovate, on the under side broadly ovate and acuminate, margins long ciliate towards the base. Megaspores 125–00 µ, subscabrate to almost smooth, 3-radiate ridges absent. Microspores 40–50 µ, rugulate, finely scabrate, ± winged.
Habitat
Growing in open dry sandy places in Colophospermum mopane woodland savanna.
Distribution
Mozambique GI Guijá, between Caniçado and Mabalane, 5.xi.1944, Mendonça 2767 (LISC).
Distribution (external)
Madagascar

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