Definition of Genus selaginella

1. Noun. Type and sole genus of the Selaginellaceae; evergreen moss-like plants: spike moss and little club moss.

Exact synonyms: Selaginella
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Selaginellaceae, Selaginellaceae
Member holonyms: Little Club Moss, Spike Moss, Spikemoss

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Selaginella

genus Scombresox
genus Scophthalmus
genus Scopolia
genus Scorpaena
genus Scorzonera
genus Scrophularia
genus Scutellaria
genus Scutigera
genus Scutigerella
genus Sebastiana
genus Sebastodes
genus Secale
genus Sedum
genus Seismosaurus
genus Seiurus
genus Selaginella
genus Selar
genus Selenarctos
genus Selene
genus Selenicereus
genus Selenipedium
genus Senecio
genus Senna
genus Sepia
genus Septobasidium
genus Sequoia
genus Sequoiadendron
genus Serenoa
genus Sericocarpus
genus Serinus

Literary usage of Genus selaginella

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1916)
"... fact that there are only three^f fossil extra-American species referred to the genus Selaginella, not one of which, however, is in a fruiting condition. ..."

2. Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des japanischen Riesensalamanders by Charles Stuart Gager, Daniel Lange (1916)
"Genus. Selaginella. B. Habitat: Species. sp. (Any available species may be used.) 1. Various species of Selaginella are common in cultivation in greenhouses ..."

3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"A family of some 300 to 400 species, which are in large part tropical, and all belong to the genus Selaginella. The shoots are forked and are dorsiventrally ..."

4. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1901)
"... falcatus—is referred to the Club-Mosses, and regarded as more nearly allied to the genus Selaginella than to ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... consists of the single genus Selaginella with about 500 species of mostly mesophytic small plants not differing greatly from the Lycopodiaceae except ..."

6. The Structure & Development of the Mosses & Ferns (Archegoniatae). by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1895)
"... but all of the former may be reduced to a single genus, Selaginella, which contains nearly three hundred and fifty species, and, except for the presence ..."

7. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"The similarity of the embryogeny of the genus Selaginella to that of Lycopodium is thus established by comparison of species both of which are held to be ..."

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