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Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Selaginellaceae Willk.

SELAGINELLACEAE

Terrestrial or sometimes epiphytic plants. Stems creeping, erect or epiphytic, bearing long roots. Lvs simple, single-veined, with a ligule on adaxial surface. Sporangia solitary on adaxial surface of a sporophyll, aggregated into strobili. Heterosporous; spores lacking chlorophyll. Gametophytes minute, endosporic.

1 living genus, chiefly in warm temperate to tropical regions but almost cosmopolitan.

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