Selaginellaceae
Selaginella Or Small Club Moss Family
The Selaginellaceae family (Selaginella Or Small Club Moss Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Selaginellales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 3 species. Its members are predominantly herbs.
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Small, moss-like creeping or mat-forming herbs with tiny scale-like leaves densely covering thin branching stems; reproduction is by spores held in small cone-like structures (strobili) at the branch tips, produced in two different sizes rather than one uniform type.
Unlike true ferns and mosses, this family produces two distinct spore sizes — larger 'megaspores' and smaller 'microspores' — an early evolutionary step on the path that eventually led to the seed.
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Typical leaf characters
- ArrangementVariable
TypeSimple- MarginVariable
- VenationVariable
Characters typical of the family — individual species can vary.
All 3 species in SELAGINELLACEAE
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