SELAGINELLA

[se.lag.i.nel.la] n [NL, fr. L selagin-, selago, a plant resembling the savin] (1835): any of a genus (Selaginella) of mossy lower tracheophytes that are related to or grouped with the club mosses and have branching stems and scalelike leaves and produce one-celled sporangia containing both megaspores and microspores