• Family (Christenhusz et al, 2011) : SELAGINELLACEAE
• Family (As per The Plant List) : Selaginellaceae
• Species : Selaginella radicata
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Selaginella radicata (Hook. & Grev.) Spring (Not found in Plant List)
• Collection Nos : FMJ & CJS 17026
• Collector(s) Name : F. M. Jarrett & C. J. Saldanha
• Endemism : South India
• Key identification features : These plants are irregular in shape, prostrate stem, rooting occasionally all over. Leaves are at the base of main stem, uniform, ovate, acute and entire; leaves on the rest of the part of main stem and lateral branches dimorphic; median leaves ascending; lateral leaves narrowly ovate, margin finely denticulate; leaves pale green, sporophylls uniform, broadly ovate, dentate, megasporangia borne at the basal region, microsporangia borne towards distal part of the cone; microspores pale brown, triangular with rounded corners; megaspores three per sporangium, pale green.
• Habit : Herb
• Native : India
• Comments : Not common. Growing on moist earth banks along roadsides.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Collection Locality : Kodaikanal
• Distribution Locality : Hassan
• Floras referred : Fraser-Jenkins, Taxonomic revision of Indian Subcontinental Pteridophytes 2008; Rajagopal & Bhat, Pteridophytic flora of Karnataka State- 1998; Manickam V.S & Irudayaraj V. (1992)- Pteridophyte flora of W.Ghats, South India

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