bio.wikisort.org - Plant

Search / Calendar

Sequoiadendron is a genus of evergreen trees, with two species, only one of which survives to the present:[1]

Sequoiadendron
Trees in Sequoia National Park
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
(unranked): Gymnosperms
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Cupressaceae
Subfamily: Sequoioideae
Genus: Sequoiadendron
J.Buchholz
Species
Synonyms[1]
Sequoiadendron synonymy
  • Americus
    Hanford, rejected name
  • Steinhauera C.Presl
  • Washingtonia Winslow 1854, rejected name, not H. Wendl. 1879 (Arecaceae) not Raf. ex J.M. Coult. & Rose 1900 (Apiaceae)
  • Wellingtonia Lindl. 1853, illegitimate homonym, not Meisn. 1840 (Sabiaceae)

Fossil record


Sequoiadendron chaneyi foliage fossil, Nevada
Sequoiadendron chaneyi foliage fossil, Nevada

Sequoiadendron fossil pollen and macrofossils may have been found as early as the Cretaceous[5] and throughout the Northern Hemisphere,[6] including locations in western Georgia in the Caucasus region.[7]


References


  1. "Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families".
  2. "Wellingtonia - Sequoiadendron giganteum". NatureSpot. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
  3. "2013 county distribution map". Biota of North America.
  4. Axelrod, Daniel L. (1959). "Late Cenozoic evolution of the Sierran Bigtree forest". Evolution. 13 (1): 9–23. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1959.tb02990.x. JSTOR 2405942.
  5. Sokolova, AB; Moiseeva, MG (2016). "A new species of the genus Sequoiadendron Buchholz (Cupressaceae) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Enmyvaam River Basin, Central Chukotka". Paleontological Journal. 50 (1): 96–107. doi:10.1134/S003103011601010X. S2CID 129990538.
  6. Chaney, Ralph W (1950). "A Revision of Fossil Sequoia and Taxodium in Western North America Based on the Recent Discovery of Metasequoia". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 40 (3): 188. doi:10.2307/1005641. JSTOR 1005641.
  7. Shatilova, Irina; Mchedlishvili, Nino; Rukhadze, Luara; Kvavadze, Eliso (2011). The History of the Flora and Vegetation of Georgia. Tbilisi: Georgian National Museum Institute of Paleobiology. ISBN 978-9941-9105-3-1.





Текст в блоке "Читать" взят с сайта "Википедия" и доступен по лицензии Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike; в отдельных случаях могут действовать дополнительные условия.

Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.

2019-2025
WikiSort.org - проект по пересортировке и дополнению контента Википедии