Equisetales
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| Equisetales | |
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| Equisetum telmateia | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Pteridophyta |
| Class: | Equisetopsida |
| Order: | Equisetales DC. ex Bercht. & J. Presl |
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The Equisetales is an order of pteridophytes with only one living genus Equisetum (horsetails), of the family Equisetaceae. The fossil record includes additional extinct species in the Equisetaceae and the extinct families Calamitaceae and Archaeocalamitaceae.[1]
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- ^ Stanich, Nicholas; Gar W. Rothwell, and Ruth A. Stockey (2009). "Phylogenetic diversification of Equisetum (Equisetales) inferrred from Lower Cretaceous species of British Columbia, Canada.". American Journal of Botany 96 (7): 1289–1299. doi:10.3732/ajb.0800381.
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