A chiefly tropical creeping clubmoss which has branching stems with hair-like spines on the leaf margins, small spore-bearing cones, and typically a mat-like growth.
Genus Selaginella and family Selaginellaceae, class Lycopsida
Example sentencesExamples
- Like other spikemosses, its leaves are very tiny and overlap.
- The spikemosses are creeping or ascendant plants with simple, scale-like leaves on branching stems from which roots also arise.
- In foliage, twiggy spikemoss resembles a clump of moss that was plugged into a high voltage electrical outlet.
- Modern descendants are tiny dwarfs by comparison - including varieties of the herbaceous ground or club mosses, quillworts, and spikemosses
- The best growing environment for this spikemoss is in dappled to full shade with ample moisture.