Equisetaceae

Family in the Global Pollen Project's Master Reference Collection

Digitised Reference Slides
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Distribution
Equisetaceae (rights holder: S Drozd Lund)© S Drozd Lund (licence)

Horsetails

Terrestrial perennial plants with creeping subterranean rhizomes, roots borne in whorls at the nodes. Aerial stems erect, green, hollow, jointed, conspicuously ribbed,with whorls of branches at the nodes.the branches themselves also jointed. Leaves reduced to a many-toothed short sheath at each node. Cones (sporangiophores) borne at the ends of the main vegetative stems and rarely the branches too... © Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings (licence)

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Definition
Genera
Taxonomic Completion
33.33%
1 of 3 accepted Genera
Global Pollen Project UUID
a03acc46-3687-439c-84fb-66a39ed4c9b5
Botanical Reference
None available. You can check The Plant List for further information.
Connected data sources

This taxon is currently linked to the following locations.

The Plant ListGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility