Selaginella breynii
Selaginella breynii is a widespread lowland spikemoss of Amazonia and the Guiana region, recorded from Brazil (especially around Manaus), Venezuela, Colombia and French Guiana. It grows prostrate on the forest floor, on stream banks, in seasonally flooded forest and at the base of sandstone walls, mostly below 350 m. It is a warm, shade-loving terrarium plant.
Where it grows wild
Labels describe it as terrestrial in the forest interior, on the margins of igarapés (forest streams), in seasonally flooded rainforest, at the base of sandstone cliffs by waterfalls, and in semideciduous forest and cerrado-forest transitions. Its stems are prostrate, with rhizophores along their length.
Records run from sea level to about 1,900 m, median about 94 m. The few high records come from the Guayana highlands and the SerranÃa de La Macarena, where a Colombian record gives 1,700 m.
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