Subjects: Biology >> Botany >> Applied botany submitted time 2021-06-02 Cooperative journals: 《广西植物》
Abstract: A new species, Selaginella pseudotamariscina (Selaginellaceae), is described from Vietnam. The placement of this species within Selaginella subg. Stachygynandrum is assessed based on a molecular phylogenetic analysis and morphological comparisons with related species. Molecular phylogenetic analyses suggested that S. pseudotamariscina is sister to S. digitata-S. imbricata clade. Morphologically, the new species is similar to S. tamariscina and S. pulvinata by sharing the rosette-forming habit, but distinguished by its dorsal leaves symmetrical, lanceate, sulcate on upper surface; strobili slightly dorsiventrally complanate and non-resupinate, sporophylls resembling vegetative leaves in form and arrangement, non-resupinate, the ventral sporophylls larger than the dorsal ones, dorsal sporophylls sterile, sporangia only borne on the base of ventral sporophylls.