Selaginella willdenovii (Desv. ex Poir.) Baker
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Authority
Proctor, George R. 1989. Ferns of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 53: 1-389.
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Family
Selaginellaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A rather coarse, clambering or sprawling, glabrous, 5-pinnate plant with stems up to 6 m long or more, the numerous lateral branches up to 50 cm long, these in tum producing altemate, pinnately subdivided, deltate secondary divisions. Primary and secondary stems reddish or strawcolored, very sparsely clothed with remote, ovateoblong, cordate leaves ca. 3-4 mm long; lateral leaves of tertiary branches whitish-auriculate at base on the adaxial side, those in the axils with two elongate rounded auricles. Ultimate branchlets pale or whitish, with contiguous, oblong, subcordate, entire lateral leaves 2-3 mm long, 0.8-1 mm broad, bluntly falcate at apex, bluishiridescent on the upper side in life. Median leaves lance-acuminate, appressed-ascending. Strobiles up to 3.5 cm long, with suborbicular, shortlycuspidate sporophylls.
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Discussion
Basionym. Lycopodium willdenovii Desvaux ex Poiret in Lamarck, Encycl. suppl. 3: 540, 552. 1814.
Lectotype. E x herb. Desvaux, from the East Indies without definite locality (P). Syntypes exist from Java and Madagascar.
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Distribution
General Distribution. Tropical Asia and Indonesia; naturalized in scattered locaUties ofthe neotropics. Distribution in Puerto Rico. Escaped and becoming naturalized in several scattered localities. Specimens examined from Cayey and Rio Grande; reported from Mayagiiez and Rio Piedras (San Juan). Habitat. Moist roadside banks and secondary forest at middle elevations (275-720 m).]
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