Abstract
Stem mono- or polyprotostelic or siphonostelic, indurated or not, branched, bearing rather few, often long roots usually at a branch of the stem; leaves simple, ca. 0.5–10 mm long, with one vein; sporangia short-stalked, single, near the axil of a leaf; heterosporous, spores without chlorophyll. Megagametophytes minute, partly protruding from the megaspore wall, microgametophytes developed wholly within the microspore, the wall rupturing to release the spermatozoids.
Selaginellaceae Milde, Hoher. Sporenpfl. Deutschl. Schweiz 136. 1865, as Selaginelleae. Type: Selaginella Beauv.
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Tryon, R.M., Tryon, A.F. (1982). Selaginellaceae. In: Ferns and Allied Plants. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8162-4_29
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