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Selaginella ciliaris

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Family Selaginellaceae

Taxonomy: Selaginella ciliaris (Retz.) Spring

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Lycopodiodes pumilio Kuntze (orthographic variant)
  • Lycopodioides pumilio (R.Br.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Lycopodium belangeri Bory (taxonomic synonym)
  • Lycopodium ciliare Retz. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Lycopodium pumilio R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Selaginella belangeri (Bory) Spring (taxonomic synonym)
  • Selaginella pumilio (R.Br.) Spring (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Selaginella proniflora (Lam.) Baker (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (9), Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2022 (1), NTH_2023 (12), Nano_2011 (2), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 15 traits from 36 records in 9 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 1.59 mm (0.75-2.9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 0.94 mm (0.5-1.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_ovate (2); oblong (1); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (2); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): recurved (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): fern (1); herb (1); lycophyte (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): creeping (1); rhizomatous (1) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.03 m (0.01-0.05 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_2023612D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
ABRS_202369Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2023_234Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
NTH_202211D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.