Selaginella mutica D.C.Eaton

Bluntleaf spikemoss (en)

Species

Pteridophytes > Lycopodiales > Selaginellaceae > Selaginella

Characteristics

Plants on rock or terrestrial, forming loose mats. Stems radially symmetric, long-to short-creeping, not readily fragmenting, ± regularly forked, without budlike arrested branches, tips straight; main stem indeterminate, lateral branches determinate, 1--2-forked. Rhizophores borne on upperside of stems, throughout stem length, 0.13--0.23 mm diam. Leaves monomorphic, in ± alternate pseudowhorls of 3, tightly appressed, ascending, green, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic, 1--2 X 0.45--0.6 mm; abaxial ridges well defined; base rounded and adnate, sometimes slightly decurrent, pubescent or glabrous; margins ciliate to denticulate, cilia transparent, spreading or ascending, 0.03--0.17 mm; apex keeled, obtuse or slightly attenuate, nearly truncate in profile, blunt to short-bristled; bristle transparent to greenish transparent or whitish, smooth, 0.06--0.45 mm. Strobili solitary, (0.6--)1--3 cm; sporophylls ovate-lanceolate, ovate-elliptic, or deltate-ovate, abaxial ridges well defined, base glabrous, margins ciliate to denticulate, apex strongly to slightly keeled, short-bristled to blunt. 2 n = 18.
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Growth form herb
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-11

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Distribution

Selaginella mutica world distribution map, present in Mexico and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:232191-2
WFO ID wfo-0001109694
COL ID 4WC5N
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Synonyms

Selaginella mutica Bryodesma muticum Selaginella mutica var. mutica Selaginella watsonii var. mutica

Lower taxons

Selaginella mutica var. limitanea