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Selaginella willdenowii (Desv. ex Poir.) Baker, Gard. Chron. 783, 950 1867. (Syn: Lycopodium willdenowii Desv. ex Poir.);
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S. China to W. & Central Malesia: Andaman Is., Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam; Introduced into: Colombia, Florida, Jamaica, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Vanuatu as per POWO; .
Selaginella Willdenowii – Need Info : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2).
I recently came accross this Selaginella willdenowii plant. I really like the blue irredescent leaves. There is also selaginella uncinata with blue leave again but I believe it is native to China/Thailand. Yes, those two do have a beautiful blue sheen, especially S. uncinata. There are some others, to – and better still S. haematodes from S. America, which I used to have growing, is bright scarlet beneath. The best of all, in my opinion is the common variegated form of S. picta, occurring in Arunachal Pradesh etc. (including Namdapha National Park), with tall, plasticy-looking bright white median leaves contrasting as a perfect white central area with the bright green laterals either side. If you had Pteris tricolor (scarlet, white and green) growing with all these, no one would believe they were all for real!
Bur you’d have to visit Botanic Gardens, like Singapore, and some German ones have S. haematodes. – though nowadays many won’t give out specimens to anyone due to a strict and totally stupid interpretation of their Garden CITES status. That really hampers all advances in horticulture and Botany – while India has destructive new laws preventing collection, including for scientific purposes, against the recommendation of their own scientific committee.
Despite misreports by Dixit and Panigrahi, S. willdenowii is not native to the Indian mainland – reports were all in error for the related, but less colourful S. helferi. But there is some S. wildenowii in Calcutta Botanic Garden, Palm house no. 2, where it grows rampantly. It occurs in the Andamans and Nicobars, and in Myanmar, Thailand, S. China and S.E. Asia. Some of the Pradhan nurseries at Kalimpong had S. uncinata a few years ago, so probably still now, and it is widespread at Botanical gardens abroad.
Bonn Botanic Garden, Germany, and various others have S. haematodes. No one has S. picta (the coloured form) so better visit Namdapha! Henry’s Plant Farm, U.S.A. (find it on Google), had genuine Pteris tricolor (from S. China, Mizoram, Myanmar) – while others claim to have it but in error and not so fine, and there’s also a very fine white striped Pteris different from S. Indian Pteris argyrea (with white stripes) at Bogor Botanic Garden, Java, on sale outside the garden there. Pteris scabririgens from Kalimpong, Darjeeling, Shillong etc. has most beautiful bright pink, stiff young fronds, contrasting with the dark green adult fronds. A variegated Selaginella menziesii also occurs in gardens abroad, including Oxford botanic Garden, U.K., with white areas of branches and leaves next to bright green areas.
It would be nice to set up a coloured fern garden! .
Blue Fern – efloraofindia | Google Groups: 2 images. I had seen this fern about two years ago at a greenhouse in a botanical garden in Montreal. It was therefore very exciting to see it in the wild at the Bodogol National Park in Java, Indonesia. The blue is really unbelievable!
I attach some photos and apologise for sending images of non-Indian flora. It is not a Fern but Fern ally, Selaginella sps. but I dont know the sps name. This can be Selaginella willdenowii commonly referred to as Peacock Fern or Willdenow’s Spikemoss. Selaginella uncinata (Desv. ex Poir.) Spring Its a Selaginella, although its not really showing enough of it in these photos, I wonder if it climbs and straggles up bushes? If so it is almost certainly S. willdenowii. There are a few different Selaginellas that show that lovely almost metallic blue, but S. willdenowii is the best one. There are fine plants of it in the Acharya Chandra Bose National Botanic Garden, Kolkata (in “Round House no. 2). |
Category: Selaginella
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Selaginella willdenowii
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Selaginella species- Valparai, Tamilnadu
Valparai 28.06.14 TBN for id/ TBN June 05 : 8 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (1).
Please identify this ? Fern seen on the roadside at Valparai.
The plant is liverwort Trichocolea tomenlilla
The poor picture quality does not help in its identification, but it is definitely not a Trichocolea.
I thought it was a Selaginella sp.
It is a small sporophyte of selaginella… heterophylly is evident according to me….
It is not Trichocolea (Marchantiophyta). It appears to be Selaginella sp.
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Selaginella species?- Mumbai/ Maharashtra
Requesting ID of this plant – Mumbai :02082013 : ARK-02 : December 2012 : Attachments (1). 2 posts by 2 authors.Requesting to please ID this plant captured in a cultivated garden in Mumbai in December 2012.
Which species of Selaginella??
I guess this plant is selaginella willdenowii. I am actually in search of this plant. Where can I get it? As I like this plant I searched for Selginella and found this old post. Atleast now I know it should be available in the city.
Thank you for providing the ID for such an old pending post. Actually I found this plant cultivated in a garden in Mumbai 2 years ago, I do not know the current state of the plant and I am not in a position to revisit the site as well. Hope, you do find this fern soon.
Thanks, … for the response. If it is a public garden can you pls give me the name and area. Let me try out trusted google 🙂 Though this plant is not native to India looks like people have planted it in Mumbai.
I’m afraid …, that is not a public garden, it belongs to the company I used to work earlier, now do not have entry into the premises.
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Selaginella species- Maha Kumbh at Allahabad
Sanjivani :
I spent 7 days in Maha Kumbh at Allahabad.
At one spot I saw a man selling this herb as Sanjivani and I saw many crippled man and women in fair..
Here are few pictures of this so called Sanjivani for specialist to decide.
I have seen this being sold at many tourist places as a plant that can come alive when you put the dry leaves /plants in water. What is this plant?
IT is the category of resurrection plant. A resurrection plant is a generic term used for poikilohydric plants that can survive extreme dehydration, typically even over months or years. Some of the species are
Efi site link: Selaginella bryopteris
Many species of Selaginella are sold in the market as Sanjivani or Mrithasanjivani. All the species are curled off during the adverse climatic condition particularly during summer to suvive the heat and shortage of water.
Identification of Selaginella, we need to study the specimen in details. The morpholgy of strobili leaves is a key character for id. Better we can keep it as Selaginella sp. for the time being
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Selaginella semicordata
Selaginella semicordata (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) Spring, in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 1(2): 122 (1840) (syn: Lycopodium semicordatum Wall. ex Hook. & Grev. ; Lycopodioides semicordata (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) Kuntze ; Selaginella burghallii R.Sim ; Selaginella mettenii A.Braun);.Nepal to NE. India and Sumatera: Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sumatera as per POWO;.
Selaginella sp. from Kamrup district, Assam:
Attached images are Selaginella sp. Please ID for itDate : 21.12.2012Location: Rani forest, District Kamrup (Assam)Habitat: Grows wild on damp placeHabit : HerbFamily : Selaginellaceae
Genus & Species : Selaginella sp.
Not sure, but could it be Selaginella strobilus. Sending some of my photographs.
To me it seems to be Selaginella canaliculata.
Oh dear, too many wild guesses again! But these photos are quite clear and it is a species that is not hard to recognise. Neither S. strobilus, nor S. canaliculata occur in India! So I don’t know why they are being mentioned – one can see that from Alston’s paper on Indian Selaginella and the late Dixit’s book on Indian Selaginella.
It is none other than S. semicordata, which occurs commonly at low altitude in N.E. India (just goes as far west as SE Nepal, where I discovered it some years ago).
It tends to like wet, marshy places, or grassy places near streams, where it creeps along between the grasses and the erect side-branches bear fertile sporangiophores which have isomorphic sporophylls.
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Selaginella delicatula
Selaginella delicatula (Desv. ex Poir.) Alston, J. Bot. 70(838): 282 282 1932. (Syn: Lycopodioides delicatula (Desv. ex Poir.) H.S. Kung (Unresolved); Lycopodium canaliculatum L.; Lycopodium delicatulum Desv. ex Poir. (Unresolved); Lycopodium flabellatum L.; Selaginella canaliculata (L.) Baker; Selaginella flabellata (L.) Spring; Stachygynandrum flabellatum (L.) P. Beauv.);
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Tropical & Subtropical Asia: Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Laos, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO;.
Id280910phk1 : 9 posts by 9 authors. Attachments (3)ID Please
Small herb, Ht. 6-10 inches
At Sagargad, Alibag
That’s Selaginella ..i do not know species.. its pteridophyte ..I love this beautiful tiny plant
Selaginella indeed, a lycophyte
It is Selaginella, it has strobilus also but cant tell species.
Selaginella bt dnt knw the sp………………………….
Selaginella delicatula
Is it possible to identify from these images at Sagargad, Alibag, Maharashtra in Western India?
Yes, certainly it is. Thats Selaginella delicatula (not a blue one).
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ID12092015PHK 1 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)ID Please
A small herb, height 5-9 inches
At Phansad WLS, MH
It is Selaginella Sp.
Kindly refer ‘Indian Selaginella by R. D. Dixit’ for species
Is it possible to identify these images from Phansad WLS, Maharashtra ?
Yes, thats S. delicatula again.
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Selaginella species- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Garden plant for id – 200113 ANB-0027 – Mumbai: 3 images.
I was told that this plant is popularly known as ‘miracle plant’ since the leaves unfold when they come in contact with water. Would love to know its name if possible.
looks like dried plant of Selaginella sps., a lower plant belonging to Lycopodiaceae.
I would also go for Selaginella sp. a couple of years back i was working on the ethnomedicinal plants of Bihar and Jharkhand area and the same plant (genus) is sold there by the name ‘Sanjeevani Booti’.
is it because it plucks up and greens up with rain, ie revives itself, and hence people think it will help them too??? or does it have some restorative properties?
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Selaginella kraussiana (Introduced)
Selaginella kraussiana (Kunze) A. Braun, Index Sem. (Berlin) 22 1860. (syn: Didiclis kraussiana (Kunze) Rothm.; Didiclis poulteri (Hort. Veitch) Rothm.; Lycopodioides azorica (Bak.) O. Kuntze; Lycopodium kraussianum Kunze; Lycopodioides poulteri (Veitch) O. Kuntze; Lycopodium kraussianum G. Kunze; Selaginella azorica Bak.; Selaginella brownii Bull.; Selaginella canescens Fée; Selaginella denticulata Spring; Selaginella hortensis Mett.; Selaginella kraussiana var. aurea W. Bull.; Selaginella kraussiana var. brownii Hort. ex Nich.; Selaginella kraussiana var. poulteri (Veitch) A. Br.; Selaginella kraussiana var. variegata; Selaginella poulteri Veitch);
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Selaginella kraussiana (Kunze) A. Braun : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2)
Location: Hong Kong Park
Date: 15 August 2018Elevation: 200 ft.
Habit : Cultivated
yes a club moss. popular with people who like to make terrariums or want no fuss high humidity liking plants. i never grew it actively, but once it was an unpurchased guest with some hanging baskets. was this in ground as ground cover or in potted pots?
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Selaginella bryopteris
Selaginella bryopteris (L.) Baker, J. Bot. 22: 376 (1884) (syn: Lycopodium bryopteris L.; Lycopodium circinale L. ; Lycopodium imbricatum Roxb. ; Lycopodioides bryopteris (L.) Kuntze; Selaginella imbricata J.Scott ; Selaginella imbricata var. erecta J.Scott ; Stachygynandrum bryopteris (L.) P.Beauv.; Stachygynandrum circinale (L.) P.Beauv.);
Flora of Madhya Pradesh: Selaginella sp from Forest area Narsinghpur (MP):
Selaginella sp from Forest area Narsinghpur (MP)
Hope this is Selaginella rupestris called as resurrection plant. In North Indian this plant is sold as “Sanjivani buti” because this turns into green fresh plant even after year of dryness when kept in water. In Narsinghpur forest this was in huge amount growing in open slopes just as carpet of grass. In last picture of ground . All green grass like appearance is Selaginella.
I have known from various sources that Sanjivani is most likely Selaginella bryopteris. It is often sold in Chandni Chowk in Delhi. It would be interesting to know name of the above plant.
Here is the interesting article on Sanjivani.
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/manjunathsettym-317697-search-sanjeevani-mythical-herb-mysterious-plant-selaginella-news-reports-ppt-powerpoint/
Thanks for the inputs Sir. I think this is same as sold in Chandni chowk.
Is it possible to identify these images from Forest area Narsinghpur (Madhya Pradesh), Central India?
This is the very distinctive Selaginella bryopteris. It is frequently sold in country bazaars (and in Shillong main street) as being Sanjeevani. However I published a paper on Sanjeevani saying that the evidence was much more likely that Sanjeevani was actually S. tamariscina, growing very rarely, only in Pithoragarh (Tawaghat) near to the ancient Vedic town there. Otherwise, as we see, S. bryopteris is common in South and Central India, so why did Lord Hanuman have to go all the way up to the Himalaya to collect it, when Laxmana urgently needed help for his severe wounds. He could have brought it in 10 minutes from South India, but he had to go all the way up to Uttarakhand, the only place in India (and a very limited area) where the resurrection species, S. tamariscina grows.Also from Chinese medicinal study S. tamariscina contains compounds that alleviate haemorrhage, which must be relevant! If only Ramdev ji had just picked up the Indian Fern Journal and read my paper he could have collected real Sanjeevani free of charge and without requiring huge Government grants, from the locality I mentioned. But thats not what hes about, I suspect!
unidentified fern – indiantreepix | Google Groups: 2 images.This fern (I think it is!) in the dry state was sold in a market in Gurgaon, with the sales pitch that if soaked in water for sometime it would become green. A green specimen was also put on display which was spectacular!So it was bought and after overnight soaking in water, it became green like in the picture!
Would appreciate if someone could id this fern and provide any information about this plant.
It is Selaginella bryopteris.
Pteridophytes are classified into two – Ferns and Fern allies
There are two principal differences between ferns and fern allies. First, unlike the ferns, the leaves of fern allies, known technically as microphylls, are small, scale-like structures with a single mid-vein.
Second, fern allies make their spores at the bases of their leaves or on specialized branches.
Selaginella, Lycopodiales (Lycopodium , Phlegmaria etc..), Equisetum, Isoets, and Psilotum are Fern allies and all other are Ferns.
In my region it is known as Bhataila chara. Bhatalia means wild rabbit and chara means fodder. It is much liked by them. According to the Traditional Healersm wild animals consume it for special purpose other than food. Yesterday I was in forest in search of this herb but due to leopard sitting on our way we failed to reach to the spot. It is also known as Laksman booti. In early discussion … have identied it as Sanjivani Booti.
Need your advise on how to propogate this plant. I was told that this would be fine if kept in a vase, with water changed periodically every week.But I have found that the sanjeevani plant dries up pretty soon. I have to work towards reviving it-very often which is tiresome!So can I repot it in soil? Will it survive in soil or water? How do I take care of it?
Looking forward to your response
Normally it is growing as lithophyte in shaded forest.But, try to make fine soil mixed with enough organic. collect sporophylls and put on this and give green house effect .other ways, if you have the chance to collect live plants, put on the surface of humus organified soil and keep the plant as erect with clips in full shaded condition.
Dont think, died plant will start to grow. This plant has the capacity to regain the green color even after death when comes to contact with water.
And I thank you too, … for the information. Pteridophytes was unfortunately never taught as a “serious” subject to me- and I missed out on all the interesting features of this group. This
Selaginella bryopteris is a poikilohydric species we were discussing some days back.
I have also come across this dry fern being sold in BBD Bagh (main office area) in Kolkata. A tribal who was selling it had a basket full containing 50 – 100 plants. He had a sample of the fresh, green fern kept inside a bottle full of water. I also bought one and was told to keep it imersed in water for 24 hrs. The next morning it had turned a living green colour as in Janaki’s pix.
I have also seen this fern at a exhibition on Ayurvedic plants by WB Forest Dept. As soon as I can hunt out info from my data file, I will get back. I seem to remember reading that it is found in tribal forest areas of Chhota-Nagpur, Jharkhand. But not sure.
Selaginella sps ? Spikemoss. Selaginella, a genus of about 700 sps in family Selaginellaceae. It could be S. bryopteris, Sanjeevani, found in India.There are many sps of Selaginella found in arid regions, which are known as “resurrection plants”. In dry times they contract, curling up into tight, brownish balls, turning green again when moisture is available, as discovered by …They appear to be ferns at 1st look, but are from division (phyllum ) Lycopodiophyta. Ferns are from the division Pteridophyta.
For more details refer to : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selaginella.
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Request for ID- Yeralwadi 2 – efloraofindia | Google Groups: Mixed thread: 1 correct image as above.Got this photograph on a visit to Tryambakeshwar, Nashik, Maharashtra State on 16 January 2010.The vendor claimed it to be “Sanjeevani Butti” and that it would have magical healing properties and it was the same as the one picked up by Hanuman. All taken in good spirit, of course.Can anyone fill me in on the story?
pl refer to the earlier discussion on this matter on ITP.
If you have a close-up, I would like to check if it is Cheilanthes or Selaginella (both ferns)- such things are sold across India in religious spots, with lots of nonsense stories. I met some Shrilankan botanist, and they have their own species sold in the Shrilankan market as Sanjeevani, with similar stories
I have seen this routinely being sold on the streets in Mumbai. The sprigs look dry, but once they are put them in water they turn green again.I didn’t know they were sold as having medicinal properties and assumed it was for ornamental purposes.
This is Selaginella bryopteris btw. It has microphylls whereas Chelianthes has proper fronds with sorus on the margin on lower side.
the herb which is commonly sold as Sanjeevani is Selaginella bryopteris (L.) Bak recently i observed growing them abundantly on the rocky areas in Bihar.
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Scientists trying to identify ’sanjivani’ herb – indiantreepix | Google Groups:
Some NBRI scientists are looking for Sanjivani. Pl. check the article @ http://diversityindianews.blogspot.com/2009/10/scientists-trying-to-identify-sanjivani.html
Till we discover the real one the name Sanjeevani will go with Selaginella bryopteris, the resurrection plant. Last year I found it being sold in Chandani Chowk area of Delhi.
Many herbs are known as Sanjivani in Central India.
Sanjivani Booti of Chhattisgarh: Needing Conservation Efforts. byPankaj Oudhia
http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=earticleView&earticleId=236&page=-2
In Chhattisgarh many herbs are used as Mrita Sanjivani. Instead of making claims and claims I started documenting knowledge about it in form of report.
* Divine medicinal herbs of Indian state Chhattisgarh having Mrita Sanjivani (Sanjeewani) like unique healing properties. (Present size: plus 10 GB)
This report is in CGBD database. I am trying to make it online.
…, a herb named Sanjivani was available for sale in famous Rajim Mela last year. I have taken pictures and Pestnet group members identified it as Azolla. Please click “Different views” for close-ups.
http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=pdb&PdbID=101321
Just wanted to let you know that the picture available on your link is not Azolla but some species Selaginella itself may be species is ‘bryopteris’.
Just by curiosity, I wud say that if a Sanjivini is there then it should be something that grows on rock in the Himalaya, according to the epic. Azolla is an aquatic plant which ones dries, cant be rejuvenated again…..
Yes, … is right. that plant is S.bryopteris
Yes … This was the plant also selling in Chandani Chowk Delhi and it surely is Selaginella bryopteris and not Azolla. I brought the dried plant home,
soaked it in water and it turned into a normal green plant of Selaginella bryopteris.
A similar but much robust species Selaginella jacquemontii grows on rocky cliffs in Kashmir valley. It can also resist drought considerably. The first time we collected this plant, we thought it to be some species of Cupressus.
I will try to change “Azolla” into Selaginella if Ecoport permits me. They have intentionally banned me to make changes in my own contributions. I am raising voice through “Protest Against Ecoport” blog.
http://protest-against-ecoport-policy.blogspot.com/
Sanjivani is name also given to Cheilanthus farinosa/ C.albo-marginata in Maharashtra. And I have seen a Selaginella species on sale in Pune market under same name. The term appears to be commonly used for plants showing desiccation tolerance- (Poikilohydry) especially of homoiochlorophyllous (=that retain chlorophyll as it is) type. I haven’t seen it used so far for poikilochlorophyllous (=that retain chlorophyll is a changed nature and have to resynthesize after
moistening) species such as of Tripogon or Eragrostis spp.
I have special interest in this group in India, as they frequent rocky habitats which I study, so if you all can list out species that you know which show this character, it will add to my knowledge.
Can anyone give me email of Dr. P.N. Khare working on this plant?
It is a news to me that is, Ceilanthus farinosa known by the name sanjeevini.
I remember once seeing the photograph of Cheilanthes farinosa on the net labelled as Selaginella bryopteris. I then suggested the correction.
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