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Definition of Equisetales

1. Noun. Lower tracheophytes in existence since the Devonian.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Equisetales

Literary usage of Equisetales

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Anatomy of Woody Plants by Edward Charles Jeffrey (1917)
"The older forms in the equisetales usually possessed dichotomously divided leaves or at least foliar organs in which the veins repeatedly forked. ..."

2. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"I. equisetales. UNDER the common designation of the ... Under this designation are included the equisetales and the ..."

3. Fossil Plants: A Text-book for Students of Botany and Geology by Albert Charles Seward (1898)
"A thoroughly satisfactory classification of the members of the equisetales is practically impossible without more data than we at present possess. ..."

4. Botany, with Agricultural Applications by John Nathan Martin (1920)
"equisetales (Horsetails) The equisetales, now represented by only one genus, Equisetum, containing about 25 species, were numerous in ancient times and some ..."

5. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"equisetales, Horsetails. Possess jointed stems and small leaves inserted hi whorls. The sporangia are produced on special leaves arranged in cones. ..."

6. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"(4) equisetales This great group is represented in our present flora by the single genus Equisetum, comprising about twenty-five species of horsetails or ..."

7. Botany for Agricultural Students by John Nathan Martin (1919)
"equisetales (Horsetails) In ancient times, as shown by their fossils in coal and other kinds of rock, the equisetales were very abundant, ..."

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