Selaginella convoluta(Arn.) Spring

WFO wfo-0001119230 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Selaginella convoluta, photographed by Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil
fig. a Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-15 / obs. 188402354
Selaginella convoluta, photographed by Cenoteando
fig. b Cenoteando, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 139365655
Selaginella convoluta, photographed by Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil
fig. c Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138307060
Selaginella convoluta, photographed by Cenoteando
fig. d Cenoteando, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 137968586
Selaginella convoluta, photographed by Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil
fig. e Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129174396
Selaginella convoluta, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. f Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 58037275
Selaginella convoluta, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. g Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 55322373
Selaginella convoluta, photographed by Jorge Armín Escalante-Pasos
fig. h Jorge Armín Escalante-Pasos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 4708246

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Selaginella convoluta is native: Mexico Southeast, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela Mexico SoutheastArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCubaDominican RepublicGuatemalaGuyanaHondurasNicaraguaParaguayPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Selaginella convoluta, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Southeast MXT NORTHERN AMERICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 14 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Lycopodioides convoluta (Arn.) Kuntze
  • Lycopodioides orbigniana (Spring ex Decne.) Kuntze
  • Lycopodium convolutum Arn.
  • Lycopodium hygrometricum Mart.
  • Pulviniella convoluta (Arn.) Li Bing Zhang & X.M.Zhou
  • Selaginella hygrometrica (Mart.) Spring ex Mart.
  • Selaginella involvens var. texta (J.B.Mackay) G.Nicholson
  • Selaginella longispicata Underw.
  • Selaginella longispicata var. subintegrifolia Hieron.
  • Selaginella orbigniana Spring
  • Selaginella orbigniana Spring ex Decne.
  • Selaginella paradoxa (Mart.) A.Braun
  • Selaginella texta J.B.Mackay
  • Selaginella textura Regel

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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