lesser clubmoss
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Lesser clubmoss in Austria.
Alternative forms
- lesser club-moss
- Lesser Clubmoss
Noun
lesser clubmoss (plural lesser clubmosses)
- Selaginella selaginoides, a vascular plant of the family Selaginellaceae that resembles moss and is widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere.
- 1990, Pete Raine, Mediterranean Wildlife: The Rough Guide, →ISBN, page 252:
- Interesting herbs which thrive in the shrubby understorey include lesser twayblade Listera cordata, an inconspicuous, green-flowered orchid, typical of coniferous woodlands and bogs, and several more primitive vascular plants, including alpine clubmoss Lycopodium alpinum and lesser clubmoss Selaginella selaginoides.
- 2005, Margaret Pilkington, Science in the Countryside: Lifelong Learning for Ecological Citizenship, →ISBN, page 189:
- Similarly, the grassland at Sheskinmore contains thirteen of the Bunduff site constant species, with only bog pimpernel and lesser clubmoss being absent, perhaps excluded by the longer sward […]
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Synonyms
- northern spikemoss
- prickly mountain-moss
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