Selaginella species- Valparai, Tamilnadu

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Selaginella species- Valparai, Tamilnadu

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Valparai 28.06.14 TBN for id/ TBN June 05 : 8 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (1).

Please identify this ? Fern seen on the roadside at Valparai.

The plant is liverwort Trichocolea tomenlilla

The poor picture quality does not help in its identification, but it is definitely not a Trichocolea.

I thought it was a Selaginella sp.

It is a small sporophyte of selaginella... heterophylly is evident according to me....

It is not Trichocolea (Marchantiophyta). It appears to be Selaginella sp.

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