Scientific Name: Selaginella gracillima

Common Name: tiny spikemoss

Family Classification (Clade): Pteridophytes

Family: Selaginellaceae

Form Description: Wispy, annual, fern ally; stems erect, simple or forking once or twice; leaves scattered, lanceolate with margins entire.

Municipality
Break O’DayBurnieDorsetFlindersGeorge TownMeander ValleyNorthern Midlands
Plant Communities
Coastal VegetationHeath
Habitat Notes

Rare in Tasmania. Grows in tufts in seasonally moist or inundated soils of swamp margins, seasonal lagoons and heathland depressions usually in coastal districts.

Site Tolerance

Moist, Waterlogged

Soil Tolerance

Nutrient-poor, Poorly-drained, Sandy

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method
Specialist Method

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Bears two types of spores in different sporangia which are terminal or scattered along the length of the stem.

Seed Treatment Notes

Unknown.