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Equisetum

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Description

Equisetum (horsetail, snake grass, puzzlegrass) is the only living genus in Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equisetum, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2687913	https://www.gbif.org/species/2687913
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	55064	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=55064

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Polypodiopsida : Equisetales : Equisetaceae : Equisetum

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Plantae : Equisetophyta : Equisetopsida : Equisetales : Equisetaceae : Equisetum

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
kingdom	Plantae	Haeckel 1866
superphylum	Tracheophyta
-	Pteridobiotina	Doweld 2001
superphylum	Pteridophytanae	Doweld 2001
phylum	Equisetophyta	Scott 1900
class	Equisetopsida	Agardh 1825
order	Equisetales	Dumortier 1829
family	Equisetaceae	De Candolle 1804
genus	Equisetum	L.

Scientific Name

Equisetum L.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Equisetum	genus	belongs to Equisetaceae	stated without evidence	Knowlton, 1899

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

359 - 323 Ma
Paleozoic

Primary Reference (PBDB)

D.J. Mabberley. 2000. The Plant-Book, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 858 p.

Common Name(s)

Schachtelhalm, Horsetail, Scouring Rush, Scouringrush, Prêle, Fräken, Fräknar, Paardenstaart, Snelleslekta, Scouring-rush

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equisetum

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Equisetum scirpides × variegatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum arvense x palustre species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum arvense × sylvaticum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum arvense x fluviatile species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum pratense x sylvaticum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum hyemale × variegatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum arvense × fluviatile species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum hyemale x variegatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum pratense × sylvaticum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum arvense × palustre species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum ramosissimum x variegatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum fluviatile × palustre species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum arvense × pratense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum palustre × pratense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum hyemale x ramosissimum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum abiquiense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum alexanderi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum alsaticum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum aquatile species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum arcticum species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	23.0 Ma Miocene
Equisetum arvense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum ascendens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum bogotense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum boureaui species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum bowmanii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum canaliculatum species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Equisetum cascadensis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Equisetum collieri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum coloradense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum columnare ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		36	183 Ma Early Jurassic	170 Ma Middle Jurassic
Equisetum columnaroides ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Equisetum deciduum species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Equisetum dycei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum ferrissii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum fluviatile species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum fluviatoides species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Equisetum font-queri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum geissertii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum giganteum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum globulosum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum haguei species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Equisetum haukeanum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum haydenii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum hybridum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum hyemale species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum knowltoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum laevigatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum lapponicum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum lesquereuxii species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Equisetum litorale species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum lofotense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum lyellii species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Equisetum magnum species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	56.8 Ma Paleocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Equisetum marylandicum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum mchaffieae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum meridionale species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum mildeanum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum mokhotlongensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Equisetum montanensis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Equisetum montellii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum moorei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum myriochaetum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum naegelianum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum nelsonii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum oregonense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum palustre species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum powelli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum pratense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum ramosissimum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum robertsii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum rogersi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum rothmaleri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum schaffneri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum scirpoides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum sergijevskianum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum sylvaticum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum telmateia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum tenggerense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum texense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum tipperarense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum trachyodon species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum variegatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum virginicum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Equisetum wilmottii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Allostelites Borner	GBIF	genus	Plantae : Tracheophyta : Polypodiopsida : Equisetales : Equisetaceae : *Allostelites*
Hippochaete Milde	GBIF	genus	Plantae : Tracheophyta : Polypodiopsida : Equisetales : Equisetaceae : *Hippochaete*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1899	Equisetum Knowlton
1976	Equisetum Christophel
1985	Equisetum Lapasha and Miller
1993	Equisetum McIver and Basinger
1994	Equisetum Upchurch et al.
2000	Equisetum Mabberley

References

Mabberley D.J. (2000) The Plant-Book, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 858 p.

Knowlton F. H. Fossil Flora of the Yellowstone National Park, USGS Monograph Series 32 2

Christophel D. C. (1976) Fossil floras of the Smoky Tower locality, Alberta, Canada, Palaeontographica Abteilung B 157 1-4, 1-43

Lapasha C. A., Miller C. N. (1985) Flora of the Early Cretaceous Kootenai Formation in Montana, Bryophytes and Tracheophytes Excluding Conifers, Palaeontographica Abteilung B 196, 111-145

McIver E. E., Basinger J. F. (1993) Flora of the Ravenscrag Formation (Paleocene), Southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada, Palaeontographica Canadiana 10, 1-85

Upchurch G. R., Crane P. R., et al (1994) The Megaflora from the Quantico Locality (Upper Albian), Lower Cretaceous Potomac Group of Virginia, Virginia Museum of Natural History 4, 1-57

Van der Meijden, R. (2005) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN)

Christenhusz, Maarten J. M., Xian-Chun Zhang, and Harald Schneider, 2011: A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns. Phytotaxa, vol. 19. 7-54. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Farr, E. R.; Zijlstra, G. (eds). (1996-current). Index Nominum Genericorum (ING). A compilation of generic names published for organisms covered by the ICN: International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants. [previously: organisms covered by the International Code for Botanical Nomenclature]. Web publication, available at http://botany.si.edu/ing/ (accessed August 2007). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

GRIN Taxonomy for Plants: U.S. National Plant Germplasm Resources Information Network, September 2011 version. Available online at https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomyquery.aspx. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Aronsson, Mora (2004) Thomas Karlssons Kärlväxtlista - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

SN2000/Van der Meijden, 1990, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Van der Meijden, 1990 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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