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Selaginella braunii; photograph Cymothoa exigua, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SACymothoa exigua, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Selaginella braunii Baker

Braun's spikemoss; Chinese lace-fern spike-moss; Arborvitae-fern; Treelet spike-moss

Selaginellaceae · China South-Central, Hainan +1

No habitat climate
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Selaginella braunii, photograph Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsSelaginella braunii, photograph Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSelaginella braunii, photograph Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsSelaginella braunii, photograph Vengolis, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSelaginella braunii, photograph Vengolis, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSelaginella braunii, photograph Vengolis, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 11 photographs ›

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: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 61 of the 63 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast · introduced: India, Myanmar, Queensland, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Costa Rica, Jamaica · 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).
Map marker26.056, 101.67 · in the densest population, 38 records (60% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial or rhizomatous geophyte” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 63 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 38 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 749 km away. 27 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 61 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 63 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; Vengolis, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

Other Selaginella 71 in the reference

Selaginella amoena Selaginellaceae 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 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 Lycopodioides braunii; Selaginella braunii f. hieronymi; Selaginella hieronymi. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Selaginellaceae
Described by
Baker
Native to
China South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast
Wild records
63 in range · 38 open

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
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 28 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (25 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 3 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 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. Records came from 21 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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