View source for Huperzia selago

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|accepted_name=Huperzia selago
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Bernhardi ex Schrank & Martius
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hort. Reg. Monac.
|place=3. 1829
|year=1829
}}
|common_names=Northern fir-moss;huperzie sélagine
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lycopodium selago
|authority=Linnaeus
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Plananthus selago
|authority=(Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois
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|name=Urostachys selago
|authority=(Linnaeus) Herter
}}
|hierarchy=Lycopodiaceae;Huperzia;Huperzia selago
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Lycopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Huperzia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Huperzia selago]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shoots </b>erect, indeterminate, 8–12 cm, becoming short-decumbent; leaves of mature portion slightly smaller than leaves of juvenile portion (more pronounced in sun form); indistinct annual constrictions present (more pronounced in shade form); juvenile growth erect. <b>Leaves</b> spreading-ascending (shade) to appressed-ascending (sun) in mature portion, more reflexed in juvenile portion, green (shade) to yellow-green (sun), lustrous; largest leaves triangular, widest at base, 4–7.5 mm; smallest leaves lanceolate, 3.5–5 mm; margins almost entire, papillate; stomates on both surfaces, numerous on adaxial surface, 30–90 per 1/2 leaf. <b>Gemmiferous</b> branchlets produced in 1 pseudowhorl at end of annual growth; gemmae 4–5 × 3–4.5 mm, lateral leaves 1.5–2 mm wide, broadly acute. <b>Spores</b> 29–37 µm. <b>2n</b> = 268.</span><!--

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|habitat=Terrestrial in sandy borrow pits, ditches, lakeshore swales, and conifer swamps, rarely on acidic, igneous rock or calcareous coast cliffs
|elevation=0–700 m, rarely to 1600 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld.;N.W.T.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Conn.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.Y.;Ohio;R.I.;Vt.;Wis.;Europe;Asia.
|discussion=<p>Plants from Greenland formerly identified as <i>Huperzia selago</i> are <i>H. appalachiana</i>.</p>
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name=Huperzia selago
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) Bernhardi ex Schrank & Martius
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Plananthus selago;Urostachys selago
|basionyms=Lycopodium selago
|family=Lycopodiaceae
|habitat=Terrestrial in sandy borrow pits, ditches, lakeshore swales, and conifer swamps, rarely on acidic, igneous rock or calcareous coast cliffs
|elevation=0–700 m, rarely to 1600 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld.;N.W.T.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Conn.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.Y.;Ohio;R.I.;Vt.;Wis.;Europe;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Hort. Reg. Monac.
|publication year=1829
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V2/V2_3.xml
|genus=Huperzia
|species=Huperzia selago
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