Accession Data
Selaginella willdenowii
Common Name: Wildenow's Spike Fern
Family: Selaginellaceae
Country of Origin: Vietnam, Malaysia, Himalayas
Description: Robust growing and most beautiful, shade loving rambler at first erect, but soon climbing between shrubs to 6m high, the light brown stems supported by stiff stilt-roots, and bearing spreading fronds of magnificent, shimmering peacock blue. Humid - Tropical.
Accession Data
Accession #: 199100039
Accession Date: 1991-12-31 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 4107
Quantity: 2
Source: Unknown
Culture: The iridescence is also seen to be dependent on the conditions under which the plant is grown. Lee et al. grew plants under light conditions with different red (R) to far-red (FR) ratios. They found that only plants grown under a minimum R : FR ratio of 0.35 produced intensely blue leaves. 3
Classification
Division: Lycopodiophyta
Class: Lycopodiopsida
Subclass: fern relatives
Order: Selaginellales
Family: Selaginellaceae
References
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, September 26, 2017.
- Selaginella willdenowii at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Tuesday, September 26, 2017.
- Katherine R. Thomas, Mathias Kolle, Heather M. Whitney, Beverley J. Glover, and Ullrich Steiner
Function of blue iridescence in tropical understorey plants
J R Soc Interface. 2010 Dec 6; 7(53): 1699–1707. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098%2Frsif.2010.0201
Last accessed on Wednesday, September 27, 2017. - Images #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) by L. Shyamal (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Wednesday, September 27, 2017.
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