Selaginella jungermannioides
A small, mat-forming spikemoss of the Atlantic Forest in south-east Brazil, from Rio de Janeiro to Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais and southern Bahia. Herbarium labels describe it as shade-loving, growing on damp rocks, wet banks and soil inside forest, often at the foot of granite inselbergs. It suits a warm, humid, shady terrarium.
Where it grows wild
Labels call it a shade-loving (ciófila) herb that forms large mats on damp banks beside rock outcrops, on moist rock in ravines and by rivers, and on shallow soil over rock inside Atlantic rainforest and semi-deciduous forest. One label records it as a facultative epiphyte in woody vegetation on inselbergs.
Recorded at 160–1100 m, median about 530 m.
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