Selaginella denticulata ( L.) Spring

Spice Detail In the field

Family: SELAGINELLACEAE

Genus: Selaginella

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castelló. Girona. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Ibiza. Formentera. Dragonera.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Chameophyte.

Habitats: Oakforest. Rock crevices and cliff faces. Non-saline wetlands (intermittent watercourses, streams, artesian wells, ditches). Small shady banks or slopes. Rocky surfaces and dry stone walls. Walls and humid rocks. Sometimes in the soil of the forests.

Characteristics: A small plant that looks like a moss lives growing along the ground in shady and wet areas. Branching is dichotomous, and leaves are arranged in four rows atop of the stems. Given that it is a pteridophyte, it has no flowers, but male sporangium (red in colour) and female (green in colour) along the apical portion of some fertile branches. Bears fruit during the winter and spring.