Selaginella repanda(Desv. & Poir.) Spring

WFO wfo-0001119983 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Selaginella repanda, photographed by chiuluan
fig. a chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203261808
Selaginella repanda, photographed by 五色鳥
fig. b 五色鳥, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201115398
Selaginella repanda, photographed by 國立臺灣博物館
fig. c 國立臺灣博物館, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197869734
Selaginella repanda, photographed by 葉子
fig. d 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190584060
Selaginella repanda, photographed by 葉子
fig. e 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190278870
Selaginella repanda, photographed by Licheng Shih
fig. f Licheng Shih, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175696982
Selaginella repanda, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. g 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163456939
Selaginella repanda, photographed by 葉子
fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 167724879

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Selaginella repanda is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanAssamBangladeshCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMyanmarNepalPhilippinesSumateraThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Selaginella repanda, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Philippines PHI
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Taiwan TAI

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 396 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 9.4 °C 12.3 °C 15.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.5 °C 29.5 °C 30.4 °C
Annual rainfall 1,892 mm 2,760 mm 4,050 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 60 mm 112 mm 189 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 396 research-grade observations of Selaginella repanda that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 20 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.

  • Hypopterygiopsis repanda (Desv.) Li Bing Zhang & X.M.Zhou
  • Lycopodioides barbata (Spring ex Baker) Kuntze
  • Lycopodioides suberecta (Baker) Kuntze
  • Lycopodium barbatum Kaulf.
  • Lycopodium plumosum Dill.
  • Lycopodium repandum Desv.
  • Lycopodium tetragonostachyum Wall.
  • Lycopodium tetragonostachyum Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.
  • Lycopodium tetragonostachyum var. majus Hook. & Grev.
  • Selaginella barbata (Kaulf.) Spring
  • Selaginella ceratocaulos Alderw.
  • Selaginella ceratocaulos f. madurensis Alderw.
  • Selaginella ceratocaulos var. kangeanensis Alderw.
  • Selaginella henryi Koidz.
  • Selaginella implexa J.Scott
  • Selaginella plumosa f. tetragonostachya (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) Haines
  • Selaginella plumosa var. hamiltonii Baker
  • Selaginella pyrrhopus Spring
  • Selaginella suberecta Baker
  • Selaginella tetragonostachya (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) Spring

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.