Selaginella kraussiana (Kunze) A.Braun | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science (original) (raw)

• Taxonomy
• Images
• General information

Native to:

Angola, Azores, Burundi, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madeira, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Alabama, Assam, Belgium, Brazil South, California, Chatham Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Czechoslovakia, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Hawaii, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Netherlands, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, Panamá, Portugal, Sicilia, South Australia, South Carolina, Spain, Thailand, Venezuela, Victoria, Virginia, Yugoslavia

Homotypic Synonyms

• Lycopodium kraussianum Kunze in Linnaea 18: 114 (1844)
• Didiclis kraussiana (Kunze) Rothm. in Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 54: 71 (1944)
• Gymnogynum kraussianum (Kunze) Weakley in J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 16: 405 (2022)
• Lycopodioides kraussiana (Kunze) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 826 (1891)

Heterotypic Synonyms

• Lycopodioides azorica (Baker) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 825 (1891)
• Lycopodioides poulteri (H.Laurentius) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 827 (1891)
• Selaginella azorica Baker in J. Bot. 20: 213 (1882)
• Selaginella brownii Stansf. in Garden (London, 1871-1927) 13: 415 (1878)
• Selaginella canescens Fée in Crypt. Vasc. Brésil 2: 99 (1873)
• Selaginella hortensis Mett. in Fil. Hort. Bot. Lips.: 125, 128 (1856)
• Selaginella kraussiana var. aurea W.Bull in Nursery Cat. (William Bull) 164: 7 (1880)
• Selaginella kraussiana var. brownii (Stansf.) G.Nicholson in Ill. Dict. Gard. 3: 409 (1887)
• Selaginella kraussiana var. poulteri (H.Laurentius) A.Braun in Index Seminum (B, Berolinensis) 1871(App.): 8 (1871)
• Selaginella kraussiana var. variegata B.S.Williams in Select Ferns: 225 (1868)
• Selaginella poulteri H.Laurentius in Nursery Cat. (Laurentius'schen Gärtnerei) 40: 6 (1868)

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. & al. (2017). An Annotated Checklist of Indian Pteridophytes 1: 1-562. Dehra Dun : BSMPS.
• Gonggrijp, S. & al. (2021). Nova Flora Neerlandica, Lycopodiopsida & Polypodiopsida: 1-275. KNVV uitgeverij.
• Lustyk, P. & Doležal, J. (2022). Additamenta ad floram Reipublicae Bohemicae. XX. Zprávy Ceské Botanické Spolecnosti 57: 41-171.
• Muer, T., Sauerbier, H. & Cabrara Calixto, F. (2020). Die Farn- und Blütenpflanzen Madeiras: 1-792. Verlag und Versandbuchhandlung Andreas Kleinsteuber.
• Prelli, R. & Boudrie, M. (2021). Les Fougères et plantes alliées d'Europe: 1-528. BIOTOPE.
• Quansah, N. & Thomas, B.A. (2021). Anisophyllous species of Selaginella in West Africa. The Fern Gazette 21: 188-238.
• Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
• Schäfer, H. (2021). Flora of the Azores a field guide: 1-445. Margraf Publishers GmbH.
• Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• Bak. F. Allies 65 (1887)
• Knox in Trans. Ed. Bot. Soc. 35: 291, fig. 188 (1950).
• Sem. Hort. Berl. 1860, App. 22
• Sim F.S.A. 335, t. 182, fig. 1 (1915)

Kew Backbone Distributions

• Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. & al. (2017). An Annotated Checklist of Indian Pteridophytes 1: 1-562. Dehra Dun : BSMPS.
• Gonggrijp, S. & al. (2021). Nova Flora Neerlandica, Lycopodiopsida & Polypodiopsida: 1-275. KNVV uitgeverij.
• Lustyk, P. & Doležal, J. (2022). Additamenta ad floram Reipublicae Bohemicae. XX. Zprávy Ceské Botanické Spolecnosti 57: 41-171.
• Prelli, R. & Boudrie, M. (2021). Les Fougères et plantes alliées d'Europe: 1-528. BIOTOPE.
• Quansah, N. & Thomas, B.A. (2021). Anisophyllous species of Selaginella in West Africa. The Fern Gazette 21: 188-238.
• Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index External Link

• • Flora of West Tropical Africa
  • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
• • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
  • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
• • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
  • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
• • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
  • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
• • Copyright applied to individual images