Selaginella myosurus(Sw.) Alston

WFO wfo-0001111782 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Selaginella myosurus, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. a Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / 2021-12-05 / obs. 173195146
Selaginella myosurus, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. b Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173195128
Selaginella myosurus, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. c Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173195134
Selaginella myosurus, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. d Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173195164

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Selaginella myosurus is native: Angola, Cameroon, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo AngolaCameroonCongoDR CongoEquatorial GuineaGabonGhanaGuineaGulf of Guinea Is.Ivory CoastKenyaLiberiaNigeriaSenegalSierra LeoneTogo
Native distribution of Selaginella myosurus, 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
Angola ANG AFRICA
Cameroon CMN
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Equatorial Guinea EQG
Gabon GAB
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Ivory Coast IVO
Kenya KEN
Liberia LBR
Nigeria NGA
Senegal SEN
Sierra Leone SIE
Togo TOG

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 9 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.

  • Afroselaginella myosurus (Sw.) Li Bing Zhang & X.M.Zhou
  • Lycopodioides scandens (P.Beauv.) Kuntze
  • Lycopodium apiculatum Hornem.ms. ex Kuhn
  • Lycopodium myosurus Sw.
  • Lycopodium plumosum Desv. ex Poir.
  • Lycopodium scandens (P.Beauv.) Sw.
  • Selaginella scandens (P.Beauv.) Spring
  • Stachygynandrum myosurus (Sw.) G.Kunkel
  • Stachygynandrum scandens P.Beauv.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.