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Terrarium Partly documented

Selaginella pulcherrima

A spikemoss from Mexico and northern Central America, described from Liebmann's Mexican collections. Wild records cluster between about 1000 and 1500 m in humid forest of Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guatemala and Honduras, where it grows as a low plant of shaded, moist ground.

Selaginella pulcherrima
Photo: Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry
Light ShadeDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

A terrestrial spikemoss of shaded, humid forest floor and banks. Specific microhabitat notes were not available in the sources we could open, so this follows the pattern of other Mesoamerican forest Selaginella.

Recorded from near sea level to 2530 m, median about 1200 m.

MexicoGuatemalaHondurasBelize

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The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its Public domain licence, unmodified.