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Definition of Genus Selaginella
1. Noun. Type and sole genus of the Selaginellaceae; evergreen moss-like plants: spike moss and little club moss.
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Selaginellaceae, Selaginellaceae
Member holonyms: Little Club Moss, Spike Moss, Spikemoss
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Selaginella
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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