Definition of Selaginellaceae

1. Noun. Lesser club mosses: terrestrial chiefly tropical plants resembling mosses.

Exact synonyms: Family Selaginellaceae
Generic synonyms: Fern Family
Group relationships: Order Selaginellales, Selaginellales
Member holonyms: Genus Selaginella, Selaginella

Lexicographical Neighbors of Selaginellaceae

Seip
Seisachtheia
Seismosaurus
Seiurus
Seiurus aurocapillus
Sejm
Sekgalagadi
Sekhet
Sekhmet
Sekhon
Selaginella apoda
Selaginella eatonii
Selaginella eremophila
Selaginella lepidophylla
Selaginella rupestris
Selaginellaceae (current term)
Selaginellales
Selah
Selangor
Selar
Selar crumenophthalmus
Selcraig
Seldinger technique
Select
Selected Area Electron Diffraction
Selective Service System
Selects
Selena
Selenarctos
Selenarctos thibetanus

Literary usage of Selaginellaceae

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

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Selaginellaceae Underw. Native Ferns 103. 1881. Terrestrial, annual or perennial, moss-like plants with branching stems and scale-like leaves, ..."

2. Flora of Vermont: A List of the Fern and Seed Plants Growing Without Cultivation by Ezra Brainerd, Vermont Botanical Club, Lewis Ralph Jones, Willard Webster Eggleston (1900)
"... Selaginellaceae ISOETES I. echinospora, Durieu. var. Braunii, Engelm. Margins of ponds and streams; common. I. echinospora, Durieu. var. muricata, ..."

3. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"[Selaginella] [Selaginellaceae]. CHRIST, H. Minis (le), Bul. ... Selaginellaceae r. Isoetes, Selaginella. ..."

4. Annual Report by Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station (1915)
"(L. complanatum L., var. Chamaecyparissus Milde). Dry woods and pastures; occasional. Selaginellaceae SELAGINELLA S. apns (L.) Spring. Creeping Selaginella. ..."

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