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19. Selaginella strigosa Bedd.

Kew Bull. 1911: 192; Tagawa & K.Iwats. Acta Phytootax. Geobot. 26: 169. 1975. Fig. 2: 20–22.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Stems prostrate, usually less than 0.5 mm in diameter, bearing leaves rather remotely throughout; rhizophores many on lower part of stem. Ventral leaves rather remote, not overlapping each other, with the space between them more than their breath, oblong-ovate, acute at apex, unequally round at base, dentate to ciliolate at margin, 2.5–4.5 mm long, to 1.8 mm broad, green, paler beneath, strigose on upper surface; dorsal leaves ovate to oblong with mucronate apex, dentate and white-margined, to 1.2 mm long with tails of nearly the same length, 1 mm broad, the upper surface strigose or smooth. Spikes small, solitary terminal at the ultimate branches; sporophylls oblong-subtriangular with long-acuminate apex white-margined and dentate.

Thailand : PENINSULAR: Yala (Kuelong Falls).

Distribution : Malaya (type).

Ecology : At low altitudes.