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Selaginella amoena Linden

Selaginellaceae · Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf +3

English names not checked: Wikidata's common names were not read for this page.

No habitat climate
Photographs not checked iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
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About the genus · Selaginella

Selaginella, also known as spikemosses or lesser clubmosses, is a genus of lycophyte. It is usually treated as the only genus in the family Selaginellaceae, with over 750 known species.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Selaginella", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the keys of the names Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 10868311 (Selaginella amoena Linden, 0 records), 12296472 (Selaginella caulescens var. amoena (Linden) W.Bull ex G.Nicholson, 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeMexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast, Honduras · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced records inside the stated native range.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 10868311 (Selaginella amoena Linden): Kew's file holds it as Selaginella amoena Linden (accepted); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 12296472 (Selaginella caulescens var. amoena (Linden) W.Bull ex G.Nicholson): Kew's file holds it as Selaginella caulescens var. amoena (Linden) W.Bull ex G.Nicholson (synonym under Selaginella amoena Linden); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Selaginella 71 in the reference

Selaginella apoda Selaginella apoda Meadow spikemoss Photo: CC BY, Anne ParkerSelaginella arizonica Selaginella arizonica Arizona spikemoss Photo: CC BY, Rachel StringhamSelaginella biformis Selaginella biformis Selaginellaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedSelaginella bigelovii Selaginella bigelovii Bushy spikemoss Photo: CC BY, Matt BergerSelaginella braunii Selaginella braunii Braun's spikemoss Photo: CC BY-SA, Cymothoa exiguaSelaginella bryopteris Selaginella bryopteris Selaginellaceae Photo: CC BY, Shikha SreenivasSelaginella concinna Selaginella concinna Selaginellaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, patrice lefebvreSelaginella convoluta Selaginella convoluta Selaginellaceae Photo: CC BY, stephenSelaginella delicatula Selaginella delicatula Delicate spikemoss Photo: CC BY, Yu-Chang ChenSelaginella denticulata Selaginella denticulata Toothed-leaved Clubmoss Photo: CC BY, Sami TörnblomSelaginella diffusa Selaginella diffusa Selaginellaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, SalixSelaginella doederleinii Selaginella doederleinii Greater selaginella Photo: CC0, author not stated all 72 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Selaginella pulcherrima; Selaginella caulescens var. amoena. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Selaginellaceae
Described by
Linden
Native to
Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southwest +2
Wild records
none in range

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Selaginella amoena Linden (plant_name_id 3216665), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; 0 records of GBIF's key 10868311, Selaginella amoena Linden (Kew's file holds it as Selaginella amoena Linden (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API; 0 records of GBIF's key 12296472, Selaginella caulescens var. amoena (Linden) W.Bull ex G.Nicholson (Kew's file holds it as Selaginella caulescens var. amoena (Linden) W.Bull ex G.Nicholson (synonym under Selaginella amoena Linden)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no item carries Kew's IPNI identifier 77119671-1, POWO 77119671-1
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.

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