Biology:Selaginella longiciliata

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Short description: Species of plant in the family Selaginellaceae

Selaginella longiciliata
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Herbarium specimen
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Lycophytes
Class: Lycopodiopsida
Order: Selaginellales
Family: Selaginellaceae
Genus: Selaginella
Species:
S. longiciliata
Binomial name
Selaginella longiciliata

Selaginella longiciliata is a small herbaceous plant in the family Selaginellaceae which is native to New Guinea and Australia.[3] In Australia its natural range is restricted to a very small area in the vicinity of Lockhart River in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, as well as on Murray Island in the Torres Strait.[4]

Taxonomy

This species was first described in 1913 by the German botanist Georg Hans Emmo Wolfgang Hieronymus, and published in 1914 in the journal Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie.[1][2][5]

Conservation

This species is listed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science as least concern.[6] (As of May 2023), it has not been assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Selaginella longiciliata". Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/120329. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Selaginella longiciliata Hieron.". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77186831-1. 
  3. "Selaginella longiciliata". Australian Tropical Herbarium, Cairns; Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra; Identic, Brisbane. 2022. https://apps.lucidcentral.org/ferns/text/entities/selaginella_longiciliata.htm. 
  4. "Search: species: Selaginella longiciliata | Occurrence records". Australian Government. https://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?taxa=Selaginella%20longiciliata#tab_mapView. 
  5. Hieronymus, G.H.E.W. (1914). "Neue Selaginella-Arten Papuasiens". Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 50 (2): 33. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/186143. Retrieved 20 May 2023. 
  6. "Species profile—Selaginella longiciliata". Queensland Government. 2022. https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/details/?id=5644. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q17141102 entry