| Selaginella sibirica (Milde) Hieron. | |||
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| Family | Selaginellaceae — APG family: Selaginellaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Selaginella rupestris forma sibirica Milde. | ||
| Description | Stems forming open spreading mats; branches intricate; upper and under leaves equal or subequal in length, or the under slightly longer; leaves linear to ligulate, rounded at apex, with ciliate margin and white to tawny setae (of very different lengths in different specimens) at tip. | ||
| Ecology | Dry exposed rocks, dry heaths, ridges, quite common in Brooks Range and in- terior Alaska. Described from “Dahuria, Ingodam, and Szita.” | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Very similar to S. densa var. Standleyi, which differs in having lutescent setae and more separated branches. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.