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Selaginella

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Selaginella is the sole genus of primitive vascular plants in the family Selaginellaceae, the spikemosses or lesser clubmosses. [1]

78 relations: Africa, Alexander Braun, Antoine Frédéric Spring, Asia, Australia, Azores, Casparian strip, Central America, Chihuahuan Desert, China, Desert, Diarchy, Ecuador, Europe, Exarch, Fern, Fern ally, Forest, Heterospory, India, Isoetopsida, Joint Genome Institute, Ligule, Lycopodiaceae, Lycopodiophyta, Lycopodiopsida, Maluku Islands, Microphyll, Model organism, North America, Palisot de Beauvois, Plant, Poikilohydry, Resurrection plant, Rodrigues, Selaginella apoda, Selaginella asprella, Selaginella bifida, Selaginella biformis, Selaginella bigelovii, Selaginella bryopteris, Selaginella carinata, Selaginella cinerascens, Selaginella densa, Selaginella denticulata, Selaginella elmeri, Selaginella eremophila, Selaginella erythropus, Selaginella hansenii, Selaginella kraussiana, ..., Selaginella lepidophylla, Selaginella martensii, Selaginella moellendorffii, Selaginella oregana, Selaginella plana, Selaginella poulteri, Selaginella pulcherrima, Selaginella rupestris, Selaginella selaginoides, Selaginella sericea, Selaginella serpens, Selaginella sibirica, Selaginella stellata, Selaginella substipitata, Selaginella tamariscina, Selaginella tortipila, Selaginella uliginosa, Selaginella umbrosa, Selaginella uncinata, Selaginella wallacei, Selaginella watsonii, Selaginella willdenowii, Southeast Asia, Spore, Stele (biology), Trabecula, United States Department of Energy, Vascular plant. Expand index (28 more) »

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Alexander Braun

He studied botany in Heidelberg, Paris and Munich.

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Antoine Frédéric Spring

Antoine Frédéric Spring (8 April 1814 in Gerolsbach, Bavaria – 17 January 1872) was a German-born, Belgian physician and botanist.

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Asia

Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Azores

The Azores (or; Açores), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Região Autónoma dos Açores), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal.

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Casparian strip

In plant anatomy, the Casparian strip is a band of cell wall material deposited in the radial and transverse walls of the endodermis, and is chemically different from the rest of the cell wall - the cell wall being made of lignin and without suberin - whereas the Casparian strip is made of suberin and sometimes lignin.

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Central America

Central America (América Central, Centroamérica) is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with the South American continent on the southeast.

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Chihuahuan Desert

The Chihuahuan Desert is a desert and ecoregion designation covering parts of Mexico and the United States.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Desert

A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.

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Diarchy

A diarchy (from Greek δι-, di-, "double", and -αρχία, -arkhía, "ruled").

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Ecuador

Ecuador (Ikwadur), officially the Republic of Ecuador (República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Ikwadur Ripuwlika), is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Exarch

The term exarch comes from the Ancient Greek ἔξαρχος, exarchos, and designates holders of various historical offices, some of them being political or military and others being ecclesiastical.

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Fern

A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.

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Fern ally

Fern allies are a diverse group of seedless vascular plants that are not true ferns.

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Forest

A forest is a large area dominated by trees.

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Heterospory

Heterospory is the production of spores of two different sizes and sexes by the sporophytes of land plants.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Isoetopsida

The Isoetopsida is a class of Lycopodiophyta.

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Joint Genome Institute

The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), currently located in Walnut Creek, California, was created in 1997 to unite the expertise and resources in genome mapping, DNA sequencing, technology development, and information sciences pioneered at the DOE genome centers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

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Ligule

A ligule (from "strap", variant of lingula, from lingua "tongue") — is a thin outgrowth at the junction of leaf and leafstalk of many grasses (Poaceae) and sedges.

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Lycopodiaceae

The Lycopodiaceae (class Lycopodiopsida, order Lycopodiales) are an old family of vascular plants, including all of the core clubmosses, comprising 16 accepted genera and ca 400 known species.

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Lycopodiophyta

The Division Lycopodiophyta (sometimes called lycophyta or lycopods) is a tracheophyte subgroup of the Kingdom Plantae.

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Lycopodiopsida

Lycopodiopsida is a class of herbaceous vascular plants known as the clubmosses and firmosses.

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Maluku Islands

The Maluku Islands or the Moluccas are an archipelago within Banda Sea, Indonesia.

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Microphyll

In plant anatomy and evolution a microphyll is a type of plant leaf with one single, unbranched leaf vein.

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Model organism

A model organism is a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the organism model will provide insight into the workings of other organisms.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Palisot de Beauvois

Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot, Baron de Beauvois (27 July 1752, Arras – 21 January 1820, Paris) was a French naturalist.

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Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.

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Poikilohydry

Poikilohydry is the lack of ability (structural or functional mechanism) to maintain and/or regulate water content to achieve homeostasis of cells and tissue connected with quick equilibration of cell/tissue water content to that of the environment.

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Resurrection plant

A resurrection plant is any poikilohydric plant that can survive extreme dehydration, even over months or years.

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Rodrigues

Rodrigues (Île Rodrigues) is a autonomous outer island of the Republic of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, about east of Mauritius.

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Selaginella apoda

Selaginella apoda, commonly known as meadow spikemoss, is a perennial lycophyte native to much of the eastern United States and parts of northeastern Mexico.

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Selaginella asprella

Selaginella asprella is a species of spikemoss known by the common name bluish spikemoss.

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Selaginella bifida

Selaginella bifida is a lycophyte native to Rodrigues Island in the Mascarene Islands.

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Selaginella biformis

Selaginella biformis is a species of plant in the Selaginellaceae family.

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Selaginella bigelovii

Selaginella bigelovii is a species of spikemoss known by the common names bushy spikemoss and Bigelow's spikemoss.

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Selaginella bryopteris

Selaginella bryopteris (Devanagari:संजीवनी) is a lithophytic plant that is native to India.

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Selaginella carinata

Selaginella carinata is a species of plant in the Selaginellaceae family.

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Selaginella cinerascens

Selaginella cinerascens is a species of spikemoss known by the common names mesa spikemoss, gray spikemoss, and ashy spikemoss.

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Selaginella densa

Selaginella densa is a species of spikemoss known by the common names lesser spikemoss, prairie spikemoss, and Rocky Mountains spikemoss.

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Selaginella denticulata

Selaginella denticulata or Mediterranean clubmoss is a non-flowering plant of the spikemoss genus Selaginella with a wide distribution around the Northern Hemisphere.

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Selaginella elmeri

Selaginella elmeri is a species of plant in the Selaginellaceae family.

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Selaginella eremophila

Selaginella eremophila is a species of spikemoss known by the common name desert spikemoss.

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Selaginella erythropus

Selaginella erythropus is a species of plant in the Selaginellaceae family, endemic to Tanzania, and the Yucatan and Belize to Colombia.

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Selaginella hansenii

Selaginella hansenii is a species of spikemoss known by the common name Hansen's spikemoss.

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Selaginella kraussiana

Selaginella kraussiana, sometimes known by the common names Krauss' spikemoss, Krauss′s clubmoss, and African clubmoss, is a clubmoss found naturally in the Azores and parts of mainland Africa.

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Selaginella lepidophylla

Selaginella lepidophylla (syn. Lycopodium lepidophyllum) is a species of desert plant in the spikemoss family (Selaginellaceae).

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Selaginella martensii

Selaginella martensii, the variegated spikemoss or Martens's spike moss, is a lycophyte in the Selaginellaceae family.

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Selaginella moellendorffii

Selaginella moellendorffii is a lycophyte that is an important model organism, especially in comparative genomics.

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Selaginella oregana

Selaginella oregana is a species of spikemoss known by the common name Oregon spikemoss.

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Selaginella plana

Selaginella plana, commonly known as the Asian spikemoss, is a lycophyte native to Tropical Asia particularly in India, Indochina, and Indonesia.

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Selaginella poulteri

Selaginella poulteri is a species of plant in the Selaginellaceae family.

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Selaginella pulcherrima

Selaginella pulcherrima is a species of plant in the Selaginellaceae family.

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Selaginella rupestris

Selaginella rupestris, the northern selaginellla or rock spike-moss, is a species of spike-moss occurring in dry rocky places in eastern North America, including one locality in Greenland.

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Selaginella selaginoides

Selaginella selaginoides is a non-flowering plant of the spikemoss genus Selaginella with a wide distribution around the Northern Hemisphere.

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Selaginella sericea

Selaginella sericea is a species of plant in the Selaginellaceae family.

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Selaginella serpens

Selaginella serpens is a species of plant in the Selaginellaceae family: found mostly in the Caribbean.

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Selaginella sibirica

Selaginella sibirica, the Siberian spikemoss, is a species of spikemoss that can be found in dry or exposed rocks and ridges from Alaska to the northwestern region of the district of Mackenzie as well as in northern Russia.

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Selaginella stellata

Selaginella stellata, also recognized by its common name, starry spikemoss or starry spike-moss, is a species of spikemoss of the Selaginellaceae family.

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Selaginella substipitata

Selaginella substipitata, the stalked spikemoss, is a species of plant in the Selaginellaceae family, endemic to Caribbean islands, Colombia, and Venezuela.

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Selaginella tamariscina

Selaginella tamariscina is a species of plant in the Selaginellaceae family, endemic to China, India, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Russia (Siberia), Taiwan, and northern Thailand.

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Selaginella tortipila

Selaginella tortipila, the twistedhair spikemoss or kinky-hair spike-moss, is a species of clubmoss, a primitive group of plants.

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Selaginella uliginosa

Selaginella uliginosa is a small perennial plant found in Australia.

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Selaginella umbrosa

Selaginella umbrosa is a species of plant in the Selaginellaceae family.

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Selaginella uncinata

Selaginella uncinata, the blue spikemoss, peacock moss, peacock spikemoss, or spring blue spikemoss, is a species of plant in the Selaginellaceae family.

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Selaginella wallacei

Selaginella wallacei is a species of spikemoss known by the common name Wallace's spikemoss.

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Selaginella watsonii

Selaginella watsonii is a species of spikemoss known by the common name Watson's spikemoss.

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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.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia.

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Spore

In biology, a spore is a unit of sexual or asexual reproduction that may be adapted for dispersal and for survival, often for extended periods of time, in unfavourable conditions.

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Stele (biology)

In a vascular plant, the stele is the central part of the root or stem containing the tissues derived from the procambium.

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Trabecula

A trabecula (plural trabeculae, from Latin for "small beam") is a small, often microscopic, tissue element in the form of a small beam, strut or rod that supports or anchors a framework of parts within a body or organ.

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United States Department of Energy

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a cabinet-level department of the United States Government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material.

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Vascular plant

Vascular plants (from Latin vasculum: duct), also known as tracheophytes (from the equivalent Greek term trachea) and also higher plants, form a large group of plants (c. 308,312 accepted known species) that are defined as those land plants that have lignified tissues (the xylem) for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selaginella

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