Selaginella Definition

sə-lăjə-nĕlə
noun
Any of a genus (Selaginella) of small-leaved lycopods, having two kinds of spores borne in cones at the tips of the branches.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • genus Selaginella
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Selaginellaceae "” the spike mosses.

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Origin of Selaginella

  • New Latin Selāginella genus name from Latin selāgō selāgin- a plant resembling savin, probably a kind of club moss or selaginella

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Selaginella Sentence Examples

  • The leaves of the true mosses and those of the club-mosses (Lycopodium, Selaginella) being somewhat alike in general appearance and in ontogeny, might be, and indeed have been, regarded as homologous on that ground.

  • All such special relations of the plant to its environment, which might be expected in the few forms of a large group which has persisted beyond the others, are less marked in the genus Selaginella.

  • The single genus of this order (Selaginella) contains between three and four hundred species.

  • Selaginella is heterosporous, the megasporangia being often found towards the base of the cone.

  • Thus the position of the root in Selaginella is different from what obtains in the other Vascular Cryptogams. A point of interest in this heterosporous genus is that the formation of the prothallus may commence before the megaspore is liberated from the sporangium.

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