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|accepted_name=Selaginella bigelovii
|accepted_authority=L. Underwood
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=25: 130. 1898
|year=1898
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|common_names=Bigelow's spike-moss;bushy spike-moss
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Selaginellaceae;Selaginella;Selaginella subg. Tetragonostachys;Selaginella bigelovii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Selaginellaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Selaginella]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Selaginella subg. Tetragonostachys]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Selaginella bigelovii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>on rock or terrestrial, forming clumps. <b>Stems</b> radially symmetric, underground (rhizomatous) and aerial, not readily fragmenting, irregularly forked; rhizomatous and aerial stems often with 1 branch arrested, budlike, tips straight; aerial stems erect or occasionally ascending. <b>Rhizophores</b> borne on upperside of stems, restricted to rhizomes and lower 1/3 of aerial stems, 0.3–0.4 mm diam. <b>Leaves</b> dimorphic, not clearly ranked. <b>Rhizomatous</b> stem leaves persistent, tightly appressed, scalelike. <b>Aerial</b> stem leaves appressed, ascending, green, linear-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 2.2–3.8 × 0.29–0.4(–0.75) mm; abaxial ridges present; base abruptly adnate, cordate to almost peltate, pubescent or sometimes glabrous; margins short-ciliate at base, denticulate toward apex, cilia white to transparent or greenish, spreading at base, ascending toward apex, 0.02–0.08 mm; apex keeled, bristled; bristle puberulent, rough, transparent to whitish, 0.23–0.75 mm. <b>Strobili</b> solitary, (0.4–)1–1.5 cm; sporophylls ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, abaxial ridges not prominent, base glabrous, margins short-ciliate to denticulate, apex bristled. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|habitat=Exposed rock crevices, cliffs, boulders, sandstone or igneous rock, serpentine, or gravelly soil
|elevation=0–2000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico in Baja California.
|discussion=<p><i>Selaginella bigelovii</i> is a member of the series Arenicolae (R. M. Tryon 1955) and is closely related to <i>S. rupincola</i> (see discussion). It may be confused with <i>S.</i> × <i>neomexicana</i>. <i>Selaginella bigelovii</i>, however, always has well-developed megasporangia with most of the megaspores and microspores well formed, whereas <i>S.</i> × <i>neomexicana</i> is a presumed sterile hybrid that does not form megaspores, seldom forms microspores, and usually has most sporangia misshapen (R. M. Tryon 1955). Moreover, <i>S.</i> × <i>neomexicana</i> has not been reported from either California or Baja California.</p>
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name=Selaginella bigelovii
|authority=L. Underwood
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Selaginellaceae
|habitat=Exposed rock crevices, cliffs, boulders, sandstone or igneous rock, serpentine, or gravelly soil
|elevation=0–2000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico in Baja California.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1898
|special status=
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|genus=Selaginella
|subgenus=Selaginella subg. Tetragonostachys
|species=Selaginella bigelovii
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