Spike moss (Lycophytes)
Selaginella has microphylls: tiny, single-veined leaves with an independent evolutionary origin to leaves in ferns and seed plants. It can drop small plantlets from fronds to reproduce asexually; spores form on specialised reproductive branches. Despite the name, it is not a moss, but a lycophyte.
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