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Many species of Selaginella (#Selaginellaceae) have two kinds of leaves (microphylls): Spreading, distichously arranged leaves and a second kind of leaf appressed to the stem. This is Selaginella picta. Classic #anisophylly! #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of the leafy shoots of a Selaginella. It has two kinds of leaves, those that are spreading and those closely appressed to the stem. This species also has leaves that are silvery and those that are green. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
October 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
scottzona.bsky.social
Many species of Selaginella (#Selaginellaceae) have two kinds of leaves (microphylls): Spreading, distichously arranged leaves and a second kind of leaf appressed to the stem. This is Selaginella willdenowii. Classic #anisophylly! #TropicalBotany #botany 🌱🧪🌾
Close-up of the leafy shoots of Selaginella with leaves as described in the text. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
October 25, 2024 at 11:06 AM
thechaoticgardener.bsky.social
It's a bit mucky when you get down to the level of this spike moss. It doesn't seem to mind and I quite like a bit of muck 🌱
#Selaginella erythropus
#Selaginellaceae
#sydney #garden #BalconyGarden #UrbanGarden #UrbanPlanting #SpikeMoss
A macro photo showing a a small spike moss shoot with green fronds in the centre. It is surrounded a tangle of red snaking shoots and fronds
December 31, 2024 at 12:09 PM
scottzona.bsky.social
For connoisseurs of seed-free plants (I know you’re out there), I present this little lovely: Selaginella arenicola (#Selaginellaceae). The epithet meets “sand dweller.” Very apropos. I never tire of running into this plant in the #Florida #Scrub. #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
Close-up photo of a small, moss-like plant with upright shoots and tiny leaves in four series. It grows on white sand.
April 4, 2024 at 11:47 AM
palaeojules.bsky.social
We don't have direct evidence of iridescent plants from the Carboniferous, but we do have fossils of Selaginellaceae, and many modern species are iridescent.
I thinkI originally made this statement and incorrectly applied this to all Carbon. Lycopodiales, but it was probably still quite restricted.
A plate of fossils of Carboniferous Selaginella gutbieri A drawing of the type of Selaginella gutbieri Iridescent leaves of modern Selaginella Iridescent blue Selaginella
June 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
bionomia.net
Cyrus Pringle https://bionomia.net/Q3009492 collected the holotype SELAGINELLACEAE: Selaginella extensa Underw. in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1929342430 #TypeSpecimenToday
Image of the holotype SELAGINELLACEAE: Selaginella extensa Underw.. The New York Botanical Garden http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
August 21, 2026 at 8:30 AM
kitagawa-ryona.bsky.social
Millised " laialehelised" Selaginellaceae!))
scottzona.bsky.social 🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · Oct 28
Many species of Selaginella (#Selaginellaceae) have two kinds of leaves (microphylls): Spreading, distichously arranged leaves and a second kind of leaf appressed to the stem. This is Selaginella picta. Classic #anisophylly! #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of the leafy shoots of a Selaginella. It has two kinds of leaves, those that are spreading and those closely appressed to the stem. This species also has leaves that are silvery and those that are green. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
October 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
scottzona.bsky.social
The leaves of Selaginella willdenowii (#Selaginellaceae) are fantastically iridescent. In the right light, the vivid blue color is striking (but hard to photograph 😒). My photo doesn't do it justice. #TropicalBotany #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
Close-up photo of a shoot. The tiny, overlapping leaves are iridescent blue. Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
April 19, 2024 at 11:52 AM
plazi-species.bsky.social
#NewSpecies!
Didiclis pseudobisulcata
A newly discovered #spikemoss from #thailand!

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/DC0C5E64-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/phyt...
#Phytokeys #DidiclisPseudobisulcata

#FAIRdata
#OA #taxonomy #biodiversity #conservation #botany #plants #mosses #selaginellaceae
Field photograph of Didiclis pseudobisulcata.
August 28, 2026 at 12:49 PM
utkherbarium.bsky.social
Selaginella rupestris, also known as Ledge Spike-Moss, is part of the Selaginellaceae family. This specimen was collected by A. F. Sharpe on June 30th, 1935. It was located near Richland Creek in Bledsoe County, Tennessee.
March 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
florabrasil.bsky.social
Taxonomia
Reino: Plantae
Filo: Tracheophyta
Classe: Lycopodiopsida
Ordem: Selaginellales
Família: Selaginellaceae
Gênero: Selaginella

32 registros no Brasil · 2.002 no mundo
Fonte: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/168773
Willdenow's spikemoss (Selaginella willdenowii)
Selaginella willdenowii is a species of spikemoss known by the common names Willdenow's spikemoss and peacock fern due to its iridescent blue leaves. Like other Selaginallales, it is fern ally and not...
www.inaturalist.org
September 25, 2026 at 2:51 AM
ijpsjournal.bsky.social
JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social

A fertile spike moss (Selaginellites argentinensis) with in situ spores from the Triassic of Argentina: first fossil record of a Selaginellaceae lycophyte for South America

B Cariglino, AM Zavattieri, MB Lara

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

#PlantScience
Spike Moss Microsporangia
February 28, 2024 at 11:22 PM
florabrasil.bsky.social
Taxonomia
Reino: Plantae
Filo: Tracheophyta
Classe: Lycopodiopsida
Ordem: Selaginellales
Família: Selaginellaceae
Gênero: Selaginella

32 registros no Brasil · 1.942 no mundo
Fonte: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/168773
Willdenow's spikemoss (Selaginella willdenowii)
Selaginella willdenowii is a species of spikemoss known by the common names Willdenow's spikemoss and peacock fern due to its iridescent blue leaves. Like other Selaginallales, it is fern ally and not...
www.inaturalist.org
August 16, 2026 at 1:42 PM
ijpsjournal.bsky.social
In the July 2024 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social

A fertile spike moss (Selaginellites argentinensis) with in situ spores from the Triassic of Argentina: first fossil record of a Selaginellaceae lycophyte for South America

B Cariglino, AM Zavattieri, MB Lara

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Spike moss microsporangia
July 11, 2024 at 9:28 PM
thebotanist.bsky.social
Having fun with Selaginella lepidophylla in class this week. #Selaginellaceae
Yet again I ended up explaining that Selaginella selaginoides is the one that looks least like a Selaginella despite the name 🫤 🌱🌿 #Botany #desertplants
Tight ball of brownish green shoots against white sand. Unfurling ball of brownish green shoots showing more green. Circle of predominantly mid-green shoots with curled ends.
October 11, 2023 at 6:52 PM
mostlymammoths.bsky.social
A Fertile Spike Moss (Selaginellites argentinensis sp. nov.) with In Situ Spores from the Triassic of #Argentina: First #Fossil Record of a Selaginellaceae Lycophyte for South America

Bárbara Cariglino, Ana María Zavattieri, María Belén Lara

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
According to the International Journal of Plant Sciences (in the alt-text on Twitter, which is where I pulled this screenshot): Spike moss microsporangia
June 5, 2024 at 9:09 PM
ijpsjournal.bsky.social
AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social

A fertile spike moss (Selaginellites argentinensis) with in situ spores from the Triassic of Argentina: first fossil record of a Selaginellaceae lycophyte for South America

B Cariglino, AM Zavattieri, MB Lara

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#PlantScience
Spike moss microsporangia
June 4, 2024 at 10:03 PM
ijpsjournal.bsky.social
In the January 2023 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social

Enigmatic Features of the Lycopodiaceae and Selaginellaceae—Lycopodophyta

James L. Seago Jr., Kamal I. Mohamed, Breanna Leasure, Nikole Bonacorsi /2

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Mock IJPS cover featuring undergraduate Breanna Leasure at work
December 15, 2023 at 10:20 PM
bionomia.net
Heinrich von Handel-Mazzetti https://bionomia.net/Q134118 collected the holotype SELAGINELLACEAE: Selaginella jugorum Hand.-Mazz. in China https://gbif.org/occurrence/1135461647 #TypeSpecimenToday
Image of the holotype SELAGINELLACEAE: Selaginella jugorum Hand.-Mazz.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
September 23, 2024 at 8:30 AM
gorgepulse.bsky.social
in its family, Selaginellaceae. They reproduce through male & female spores; only a small number of species do this. It's an important step on the evolutionary path to seed-bearing plants. The female spores grow into mature plants & are much larger than the male spores ...
March 3, 2024 at 7:12 PM
florabrasil.bsky.social
🌱Selaginella willdenowii
Espécie introduzida no Brasil

Selaginella willdenowii é uma espécie de planta vascular da família Selaginellaceae.

📷 David Tng, Jasmine White, Nils Servientis - Bivouac Naturaliste e mais 2
September 25, 2026 at 2:51 AM
florabrasil.bsky.social
🌱Selaginella willdenowii
Espécie introduzida no Brasil

Selaginella willdenowii é uma espécie de planta vascular da família Selaginellaceae.

📷 Jasmine White, Nils Servientis - Bivouac Naturaliste e mais 3
August 16, 2026 at 1:42 PM
phypapers.bsky.social
Didiclis pseudobisulcata (Selaginellaceae), a new species of the Bisulcata group from northern Thailand and southwest China https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42688809/
September 4, 2026 at 6:05 PM
ecologicalresearch.bsky.social
#UltramaficEcology #OpenAccess
Comparative Ionomics of Lycopodiaceae and Selaginellaceae Across Diverse Soil Types in Japan

Akinori Ren et al
👉 doi.org/10.1111/1440...

acidic soil/ ionome/ lycophyte/ serpentine/ solfatara
Graphical abstract: We conducted a comparative ionomic analysis of Lycopodiaceae and Selaginellaceae collected from diverse soil types in Japan, including serpentine soils and solfatara fields, to examine how evolutionary lineage and soil environment shape elemental composition in lycophytes. Family-level ionomic profiles were more strongly associated with lineage than with environment, while characteristic shifts in specific elements were observed under extreme soil conditions, such as magnesium-rich serpentine soils and acidic solfatara fields. These results indicate that lycophytes exhibit conserved, lineage-specific elemental homeostasis alongside flexible ionomic responses to extreme environments.
August 2, 2026 at 2:00 AM
bionomia.net
Cyrus Pringle https://bionomia.net/Q3009492 collected the holotype SELAGINELLACEAE: Selaginella carnerosana T.Reeves in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1930251335 #TypeSpecimenToday
Image of the holotype SELAGINELLACEAE: Selaginella carnerosana T.Reeves. The New York Botanical Garden http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
September 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM