{"id":1321679,"date":"2019-12-30T08:46:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T08:46:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T11:41:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T06:11:12","slug":"selaginella-species-ornamental-plant","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/selaginella-species-ornamental-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Selaginella species- Ornamental plant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nID Pls<\/a> : 16 posts by 6 authors. Attachments (2)
\n<\/span>Pls find attached some pics sent by my friend for ID. It seems to be a fern species but not quite sure. Can any of the esteemed members help in identifying the species please?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Fern! Yes!<\/p>\n

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Could it be a species of\u00a0Selaginella<\/em> ?<\/div>\n
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i think its a moss. need a little better picture of the mass below these leaf like structures and why is it so densely growing in\u00a0pot (the first pic seems have a edge of a grey ???pot). did he plant a thousand spores? also better quality pic that can be enlarged would help<\/p>\n

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It was purchased as an ornamental plant by one Professor. He was too curious to know the botanical details and contacted me. I too got curious. The distribution pattern of spores would have helped in better identification. I will ask him to send a better picture of the under side of fronds.<\/p>\n

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spores i am referring to is for growing the moss. it will not show up in the fronds.
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forgot to say it. any more informative pictures would help.<\/p>\n

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All the while I thought specimen in the pic was a fern!<\/p>\n

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i think you are on the right track<\/p>\n

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its still too early, lets get more info and pictures<\/p>\n

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Test for Selaginella. Dry few plants. Keep the dried plants\u00a0for a few weeks.\u00a0Pour water.\u00a0 They come alive:\u00a0“<\/span>resurrection plant”.<\/p>\n

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It was purchased as an ornamental plant by one Professor (in Himachal Pradesh ?)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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That is indeed a real horticultural gem of a plant – I am jealous!\u00a0 Would love to grow that!\u00a0 Question is which species? – but for all Selaginella<\/em> we need to see the strobili in close-up detail and the cilia\/teeth on the leaves – and this one is not fertile yet.<\/span><\/div>\n
The stiff stilt-like rhizoids remind me of S. pennata, S. bisulcata or S. plana<\/em>, but that’s assuming it is Himalayan or widely cultivated in India, which I rather doubt.\u00a0 It might even be an American exotic or something, as far as we know – so I can’t tell.\u00a0 It does look a bit like a compressed S. bisulcata<\/em>, I suppose – from Nepal eastwards to NE India.<\/span><\/div>\n
The other thing is its dwarf habit\u00a0 suggests to me that it may well be a developed dwarf cultivar of some species, but I don’t find it in Hoshizaki’s Encyclopaedia of Cultivated Ferns.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
If it becomes fertile later on, at least we could then see what group it is in.<\/span><\/div>\n
Good luck with it – it should be a Fern Show gold-medal plant!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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ID Pls : 16 posts by 6 authors. Attachments (2) Pls find attached some pics sent by my friend for ID. It seems to be a fern species but not quite sure. Can any of the esteemed members help in identifying the species please? Fern! Yes! Could it be a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[5890],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1321679","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-selaginella-species"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1321679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1321679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1321679"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1321679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}