Common name: Spreading Clubmoss
Selaginella kraussiana (Kunze) A.Braun APNI* 
Description: Perennial plant; main stems prostrate with leaves less crowded than on lateral branches, creeping, repeatedly branched.
Leaves in 4 rows, dimorphic; leaves on upper surface of stems reduced to 1–2 mm long and appressed, the others 2–4 mm long, broad-lanceolate and spreading on the surface of the ground, margins minutely toothed.
Strobili lateral, 10–20 mm long, 4-angled from the 4 rows of keeled sporophylls; megasporangia usually solitary at the base of each strobilus.
Distribution and occurrence: Cultivated in glasshouses, often established in moist situations, such as near ponds and along pathways. Native of Afr. and the Azores, widely naturalized in Eur. and other temp. regions.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *SC, *CT, *SWS
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *Tas. *S.A.
Text by Peter G. Wilson
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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