Isoetales

plant order

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annotated classification

  • club moss
    In lycophyte: Annotated classification

    Order Isoetales (quillworts) Living and extinct plants with secondary growth; heterosporous, with endosporic gametophytes; Isoetites is an extinct genus; for many years the species of Isoetes were difficult to distinguish, but, since the discovery that frequent hybridization was obscuring

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lycophytes

  • club moss
    In lycophyte

    …quillworts and their allies (Isoetales), and the spike mosses (Selaginellales). This classification is based on the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group I (PPG I) system, published in 2016. Lycophytes are widely distributed but are especially numerous in the tropics.

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