Selaginella denticulata
A small, flat, creeping spikemoss with forked stems and leaves in four rows. It forms mats on shaded rocks, banks and moss-covered outcrops around the Mediterranean and Macaronesia. It grows in the cool, wet winter and dries back in the summer drought, so it needs a cool, moist terrarium rather than tropical conditions.
Where it grows wild
It grows in shaded rocky places, often among mosses on outcrops, walls and banks. The Spanish Wikipedia article describes it on calcareous rocks in shady rupestral sites, but no detailed field notes were found. Its habitat has winter rain and dry summers, and colonies on exposed ground turn reddish or shrivel in the summer drought.
Few GBIF records carry an elevation. The records are mostly from coastal and low hill country, so it is mainly a lowland plant.
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