Selaginella chrysocaulos (Hook. & Grev.) Spring, Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 10(1): 232, no. 141 1843. (syn: Lycopodioides chrysocaulos (Hook. & Grev.) H.S.Kung; Lycopodium chrysocaulon Hook. & Grev.; Lycopodium hypnoides Jacquemont; Selaginella hypnoides Spring (ambiguous synonym); Selaginella philippina var. khasiensis Bak.; Selaginella rosenstockii Hieron.);
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Pakistan to China (Yunnan) and Peninsula Malaysia: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO;
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China (Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan), Tibet, Myanmar [Burma], ?Thailand, India (Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Mizoram), Nepal, Bhutan, Vietnam, Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan as per Catalogue of Life;
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Terrestrial herbs with erect stem, 10-30 cm long, 1-1.5 mm thick, slender, cylindrical, straw coloured. Branches many towards apex, erecto-patent, compound. Rhizophores towards basal part, to 3 cm long, slender, cylindrical, dichotomously branched. Leaves heteromorphic throughout, membranous, distant along main stem, compact along branches; median leaves 0.9 x 0.4 mm, ovate, acute-acuminate, margin denticulate; lateral leaves 1.5 x 0.8 mm, ovate-lanceolate, acute or sub-acute, margin denticulate; axillary leaves 1.4 x 0.6 mm, ovate, apex acute or sub-acute, margin entire. Strobili 4.5-5 x 2.5 mm, terminal, sessile, solitary; sporophylls dimorphic, membranous, spiral, 0.7-1.2 x 0.3-0.4 mm; larger sporophylls oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, denticulate; smaller sporophylls ovate, acuminate, margin denticulate. Microspores 21 um in diameter, deep-red, warty. Megaspores 180 um in diameter, pale yellow, globose, tetrahedral, verrucoid.

in moist deciduous, semi evergreen forests
India, Nepal, Bhutan
(Attributions- K. P. Rajesh from India Biodiversity Portal)
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SK1548 29 Oct 2018 : 11 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (6)
Location: Okharpauwa, Nuwakot, Nepal
Altitude:  5500 ft.
Date: 13 September 2018
Habit : Wild 
Selaginella ?? 

Best not to bother photographing sterile Selaginella since the strobili are well known to be diagnostic.
Please consult the herbarium in Godavary, just up the road from you, and ask Dr. D.R. Kandl – thus helping you to learn the common species of Nepal.  You may also consult the descriptions etc. In the Checklist of Ferns and Fern Allies of Nepal, vol. 1. 2015 – which will be provided to you free of charge there.  Study in the herbarium is necessary and is the function of a herbarium.


Enclosing some images from the book by Fraser-Jenkings  and the team. Is it one of them?
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hopefully Selaginella chrysocaulos (Hook. & Grev.) Spring [vegetative part]


Most probably Selaginella chrysocaulous common in Himalayas including Nepal and Bhutan. Though the diagnostic characters are not in the image.


Sir it seems Selaginerlla chrysocaulos


Thank you … for the ID !
Enclosing image from the book of Dr. Fraser-Jenkins for reference.
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