Difference between revisions of "Selaginella tortipila"

A. Braun

3: 271. 1865.

Common names: Kinky-hair spike-moss
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="clump architecture or arrangement;mound architecture or arrangement"><b>Plants </b>on rock or terrestrial, forming compact clumps or mounds.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem architecture or shape;stem location;stem location;stem shape"><b>Stems </b>radially symmetric, underground (rhizomatous) and aerial, not readily fragmenting, irregularly forked;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="stem architecture;stem location;stem architecture or shape;branch count;tip course">rhizomatous and aerial stems often with 1 branch arrested, budlike, tips straight;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="stem location;stem orientation;stem orientation;stem orientation;stem orientation;branch architecture or shape">aerial stems erect or ascending to decumbent, budlike branches throughout.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="rhizophore diameter;stem architecture;stem location"><b>Rhizophores </b>borne on upperside of stems, restricted to rhizomatous stems or to lowermost base of aerial stems, 0.2–0.3 mm diam.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="leaf growth form;pseudowhorl arrangement;pseudowhorl count"><b>Leaves </b>dimorphic, in alternate pseudowhorls of 5.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="stem-leaf architecture;stem-leaf fixation or orientation;stem-leaf arrangement;stem-leaf shape"><b>Rhizomatous </b>stem-leaves strongly appressed, overlapping, scalelike.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="stem-leaf location;stem-leaf fixation or orientation;stem-leaf orientation;stem-leaf coloration;stem-leaf shape;stem-leaf shape;stem-leaf shape;stem-leaf atypical length;stem-leaf length;stem-leaf width"><b>Aerial </b>stem-leaves tightly appressed, ascending, green, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, (2.5–) 3–4.5 X 0.4–0.7 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="abaxial ridge prominence;abaxial ridge prominence">abaxial ridges inconspicuous or more visible from apex to middle of leaf;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="base shape;base shape;base pubescence">base cuneate, decurrent, glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;cilium coloration;cilium orientation;cilium atypical some measurement;cilium some measurement">margins short-ciliate to denticulate or entire, cilia transparent, spreading, 0.02–0.06 (–0.08) mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="apex shape">apex keeled (more so in dry leaves);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="bristle coloration;bristle coloration;bristle coloration;bristle coloration;bristle pubescence;bristle architecture;bristle duration;bristle life cycle;bristle some measurement">bristle transparent or yellowish to brownish near base, puberulent, twisted, persistent or falling off early, 1.2–1.7 mm (1/3–1/2 length of leaves).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="strobilus architecture or arrangement or growth form;strobilus some measurement"><b>Strobili </b>solitary, 4–6 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="sporophyll shape;sporophyll shape;sporophyll shape;abaxial ridge prominence;base pubescence;margin shape;apex shape;apex shape;bristle architecture">sporophylls ovatelanceolate to lanceolate, abaxial ridges obvious, base glabrous, margins denticulate, apex keeled, long-bristled, bristle twisted.</span><!--
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>on rock or terrestrial, forming compact clumps or mounds. <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 ascending to decumbent, budlike branches throughout. <b>Rhizophores</b> borne on upperside of stems, restricted to rhizomatous stems or to lowermost base of aerial stems, 0.2–0.3 mm diam. <b>Leaves</b> dimorphic, in alternate pseudowhorls of 5. <b>Rhizomatous</b> stem leaves strongly appressed, overlapping, scalelike. <b>Aerial</b> stem leaves tightly appressed, ascending, green, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, (2.5–)3–4.5 × 0.4–0.7 mm; abaxial ridges inconspicuous or more visible from apex to middle of leaf; base cuneate, decurrent, glabrous; margins short-ciliate to denticulate or entire, cilia transparent, spreading, 0.02–0.06(–0.08) mm; apex keeled (more so in dry leaves); bristle transparent or yellowish to brownish near base, puberulent, twisted, persistent or falling off early, 1.2–1.7 mm (1/3–1/2 length of leaves). <b>Strobili</b> solitary, 4–6 mm; sporophylls ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, abaxial ridges obvious, base glabrous, margins denticulate, apex keeled, long-bristled, bristle twisted.</span><!--
  
 
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|cilium atypical some measurement=0.06mm;0.08mm
 
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Revision as of 13:13, 27 July 2019

Plants on rock or terrestrial, forming compact clumps or mounds. Stems 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 ascending to decumbent, budlike branches throughout. Rhizophores borne on upperside of stems, restricted to rhizomatous stems or to lowermost base of aerial stems, 0.2–0.3 mm diam. Leaves dimorphic, in alternate pseudowhorls of 5. Rhizomatous stem leaves strongly appressed, overlapping, scalelike. Aerial stem leaves tightly appressed, ascending, green, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, (2.5–)3–4.5 × 0.4–0.7 mm; abaxial ridges inconspicuous or more visible from apex to middle of leaf; base cuneate, decurrent, glabrous; margins short-ciliate to denticulate or entire, cilia transparent, spreading, 0.02–0.06(–0.08) mm; apex keeled (more so in dry leaves); bristle transparent or yellowish to brownish near base, puberulent, twisted, persistent or falling off early, 1.2–1.7 mm (1/3–1/2 length of leaves). Strobili solitary, 4–6 mm; sporophylls ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, abaxial ridges obvious, base glabrous, margins denticulate, apex keeled, long-bristled, bristle twisted.


Habitat: soil, less often in shaded sites
Elevation: 600–1500 m

Discussion

Selaginella tortipila, a very distinct species, is probably without close relatives in the flora but may be distantly related to S. rupestris. The two irregularly forked branches are particularly unusual: the larger one forms the strobilus while the smaller becomes arrested and forms either a budlike branch or grows and divides again to form a vegetative shoot.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.