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Selaginella
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Selaginella
Selaginella
is the sole genus of
vascular plants
in the family Selaginellaceae, the
spikemosses
or
lesser clubmosses
. This family is placed in the class
Isoetopsida
, distinguished from the sister group
Lycopodiopsida
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
.
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