Selaginella delicatula
A common spikemoss of wet tropical and subtropical Asia, from India through southern China and Taiwan to Vietnam and the Philippines. It grows as an upright-to-sprawling, finely branched green frond on shaded, moist loamy banks, trail edges and forest floors in lowland to lower montane forest, occasionally on bark beside streams. It suits a shaded, humid terrarium with mild-warm temperatures.
Where it grows wild
Shaded, moist ground in lowland and lower montane rainforest: loam along trails and banks, shaded forest floor, even the ground of coffee plantations; one label records it on the bark of a large tree beside a stream. It tolerates some disturbance as long as it stays shaded and damp.
Herbarium specimens range from about 250 m to about 1,330 m (Taiwan, Vietnam, and Mt Kitanglad and Mt Kalatungan on Mindanao).
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