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  1. spikemoss, spike moss, little club mossnoun

    any of numerous fern allies of the genus Selaginella

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  1. spikemoss

    Selaginella is the sole genus in the family Selaginellaceae, the spikemosses or lesser clubmosses, a kind of vascular plant. This family is distinguished from Lycopodiaceae (the clubmosses) by having scale-leaves bearing a ligule and by having spores of two types. They are sometimes included in an informal paraphyletic group called the "fern allies". S. moellendorffii is an important model organism. Its genome has been sequenced by the United States Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute. The name Selaginella was erected by Palisot de Beauvois solely for the species Selaginella selaginoides, which turns out (with the closely related Selaginella deflexa) to be a clade that is sister to all other Selaginellas, so any definitive subdivision of the species into separate genera leaves two taxa in Selaginella, with the hundreds of other species in new or resurrected genera. Selaginella occurs mostly in the tropical regions of the world, with a handful of species to be found in the arctic-alpine zones of both hemispheres.

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  1. spikemoss

    Spikemoss is a type of primitive vascular plant that belongs to the family Selaginellaceae in the order Selaginellales, in the class Isoetopsida. It is characterized by its small leaves and spore-producing structures. Despite its name, spikemoss is not a true moss, it is more closely related to ferns. These plants are most commonly found in tropical and subtropical regions, but some species can also thrive in cooler climates.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of spikemoss in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of spikemoss in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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