Selaginella piliferaA.Br.

resurrection plant

WFO wfo-0001109660 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Selaginella pilifera, photographed by Francisco Martínez González
fig. a Francisco Martínez González, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-09-24 / obs. 97652715
Selaginella pilifera, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. b Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 85996591
Selaginella pilifera, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. c Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 64727836
Selaginella pilifera, photographed by Francisco Martínez González
fig. d Francisco Martínez González, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 51461517
Selaginella pilifera, photographed by Francisco Martínez González
fig. e Francisco Martínez González, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 47207569
Selaginella pilifera, photographed by Liliana Ramírez-Freire
fig. f Liliana Ramírez-Freire, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 37494637
Selaginella pilifera, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. g Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 26890251
Selaginella pilifera, photographed by Rogelio Reyna-Hernández
fig. h Rogelio Reyna-Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 11778598

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Selaginella pilifera is native: Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, New Mexico, Texas Mexico NortheastMexico NorthwestNew MexicoTexas
Native distribution of Selaginella pilifera, 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
Mexico Northeast MXE NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northwest MXN
New Mexico NWM
Texas TEX

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 6 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 pilifera (A.Braun) Kuntze
  • Lycopodioides pringlei Kuntze
  • Lycopodium circinatum Corbett.
  • Pulviniella pilifera (A.Braun) Li Bing Zhang & X.M.Zhou
  • Selaginella pilifera var. pringlei (Baker) C.V.Morton
  • Selaginella pringlei Baker

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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