Difference between revisions of "Selaginella leucobryoides"

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Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 75: 8. 1920.

Common names: Mojave spike-moss
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="mat shape;mat shape"><b>Plants </b>on rock, forming rounded cushionlike mats.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem growth form or orientation;stem growth form or orientation;stem growth form or orientation"><b>Stems </b>decumbent to short-creeping, dry stems readily fragmenting;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="stem condition or texture;stem shape;branch architecture or shape;tip course">irregularly forked, without budlike arrested branches, tips straight;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="main-stem development;upperside development;underside development;lateral branch architecture or shape;lateral branch development;lateral branch orientation;lateral branch shape">main-stem upperside and underside structurally slightly different, inconspicuously indeterminate, lateral branches radially symmetric, determinate, strongly ascending, 1-forked.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="rhizophore diameter"><b>Rhizophores </b>borne on upperside of stems, throughout stem length, 0.2–0.35 mm diam.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="leaf architecture;leaf fixation or orientation;leaf orientation;leaf coloration;leaf shape;leaf shape;leaf shape;leaf shape;leaf length;leaf width;pseudowhorl arrangement;pseudowhorl count"><b>Leaves </b>monomorphic, ± in alternate pseudowhorls of 4, tightly appressed, ascending, green, linear-oblong to linear-lanceolate, sometimes falcate on lateral rows (on main-stem), 2–4.5 X 0.5–0.65 mm (usually smaller on young ascending branches);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="abaxial ridge count">abaxial ridges present;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="base shape;base shape;base pubescence">base cuneate and decurrent (rounded and adnate on young branches), glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="margin architecture or pubescence or shape;cilium coloration;cilium arrangement;cilium orientation;whole_organism some measurement">margins short-ciliate, cilia transparent, scattered, spreading at base to ascending and dentiform toward apex, 0.07–0.15 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape">apex slightly attenuate and bristled or obtuse and abruptly bristled;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="bristle coloration;bristle coloration;bristle pubescence;bristle some measurement">bristle whitish or transparent, puberulent, 0.2–0.6 mm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="strobilus architecture or arrangement or growth form;strobilus some measurement"><b>Strobili </b>solitary, 0.4–1.5 cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="sporophyll shape;sporophyll shape;abaxial ridge prominence;base pubescence;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;apex shape;bristle height or length or size">sporophylls deltate-ovate or lanceolate, abaxial ridges moderately defined, base glabrous, margins short-ciliate to denticulate, apex acuminate with very short bristle.</span><!--
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>on rock, forming rounded cushionlike mats. <b>Stems</b> decumbent to short-creeping, dry stems readily fragmenting; irregularly forked, without budlike arrested branches, tips straight; main stem upperside and underside structurally slightly different, inconspicuously indeterminate, lateral branches radially symmetric, determinate, strongly ascending, 1-forked. <b>Rhizophores</b> borne on upperside of stems, throughout stem length, 0.2–0.35 mm diam. <b>Leaves</b> monomorphic, ± in alternate pseudowhorls of 4, tightly appressed, ascending, green, linear-oblong to linear-lanceolate, sometimes falcate on lateral rows (on main stem), 2–4.5 × 0.5–0.65 mm (usually smaller on young ascending branches); abaxial ridges present; base cuneate and decurrent (rounded and adnate on young branches), glabrous; margins short-ciliate, cilia transparent, scattered, spreading at base to ascending and dentiform toward apex, 0.07–0.15 mm; apex slightly attenuate and bristled or obtuse and abruptly bristled; bristle whitish or transparent, puberulent, 0.2–0.6 mm. <b>Strobili</b> solitary, 0.4–1.5 cm; sporophylls deltate-ovate or lanceolate, abaxial ridges moderately defined, base glabrous, margins short-ciliate to denticulate, apex acuminate with very short bristle.</span><!--
  
 
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Revision as of 13:27, 27 July 2019

Plants on rock, forming rounded cushionlike mats. Stems decumbent to short-creeping, dry stems readily fragmenting; irregularly forked, without budlike arrested branches, tips straight; main stem upperside and underside structurally slightly different, inconspicuously indeterminate, lateral branches radially symmetric, determinate, strongly ascending, 1-forked. Rhizophores borne on upperside of stems, throughout stem length, 0.2–0.35 mm diam. Leaves monomorphic, ± in alternate pseudowhorls of 4, tightly appressed, ascending, green, linear-oblong to linear-lanceolate, sometimes falcate on lateral rows (on main stem), 2–4.5 × 0.5–0.65 mm (usually smaller on young ascending branches); abaxial ridges present; base cuneate and decurrent (rounded and adnate on young branches), glabrous; margins short-ciliate, cilia transparent, scattered, spreading at base to ascending and dentiform toward apex, 0.07–0.15 mm; apex slightly attenuate and bristled or obtuse and abruptly bristled; bristle whitish or transparent, puberulent, 0.2–0.6 mm. Strobili solitary, 0.4–1.5 cm; sporophylls deltate-ovate or lanceolate, abaxial ridges moderately defined, base glabrous, margins short-ciliate to denticulate, apex acuminate with very short bristle.


Habitat: In rock crevices or on exposed rock
Elevation: 800–2800 m

Discussion

Selaginella leucobryoides has very tightly intertwined stems that readily fragment, a characteristic shared with S. utahensis and S. asprella. Selaginella leucobryoides is very closely related to, and difficult to separate from, S. utahensis (see discussion).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.