Selaginella sanguinolenta(L.) Spring

WFO wfo-0001127101 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, 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 sanguinolenta, photographed by Евгений Егорейченков
fig. a Евгений Егорейченков, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-22 / obs. 190813112
Selaginella sanguinolenta, photographed by Dag Endresen
fig. b Dag Endresen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 25342227
Selaginella sanguinolenta, photographed by Natalya Ivanova
fig. c Natalya Ivanova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24973832
Selaginella sanguinolenta, photographed by Dag Endresen
fig. d Dag Endresen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 25342217
Selaginella sanguinolenta, photographed by Юлия
fig. e Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152853060
Selaginella sanguinolenta, photographed by Юлия
fig. f Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152940343
Selaginella sanguinolenta, photographed by Юлия
fig. g Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136508356
Selaginella sanguinolenta, photographed by Юлия
fig. h Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136453343

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Selaginella sanguinolenta is native: Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Tuva, Yakutiya AmurBuryatiyaChitaIrkutskKamchatkaKhabarovskKrasnoyarskManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeTuvaYakutiya
Native distribution of Selaginella sanguinolenta, 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
Amur AMU ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
Chita CTA
Irkutsk IRK
Kamchatka KAM
Khabarovsk KHA
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Tuva TVA
Yakutiya YAK

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 10 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.

  • Boreoselaginella sanguinolenta (L.) Li Bing Zhang & X.M.Zhou
  • Lycopodioides sanguinolenta (L.) Kuntze
  • Lycopodioides sanguinolenta f. kantzensis (H.S.Kung) H.S.Kung
  • Lycopodium sanguinolentum L.
  • Selaginella kansuensis Ching & Y.P.Hsu
  • Selaginella sanguinolenta (L.) Spring
  • Selaginella sanguinolenta f. kantzensis H.S.Kung
  • Selaginella sanguinolenta var. brachyclada Kitag.
  • Selaginella sanguinolenta var. compressa Trautv. & Mey.
  • Stachygynandrum sanguinolentum (L.) 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.