Sequoiadendron
| Sequoiadendron | |
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| The General Grant tree in Kings Canyon National Park | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Pinophyta |
| Class: | Pinopsida |
| Order: | Pinales |
| Family: | Cupressaceae |
| Subfamily: | Sequoioideae |
| Genus: | Sequoiadendron J.Buchholz |
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Sequoiadendron is a genus of evergreen trees, with two species, only one of which survives to the present:[1]
- Sequoiadendron giganteum, extant, commonly known as the "giant sequoia", growing naturally in the Sierra Nevada of California[2]
- † Sequoiadendron chaneyi, extinct, the predecessor of Sequoiadendron giganteum, found mostly in the Nevada part of the Tertiary Colorado Plateau until the late Miocene[3]
Fossil record
Sequoiadendron fossil pollen has been recovered from strata of early Pliocene until Günz glaciation of the Pleistocene in Western Georgia in the Caucasus region.[4]
References
- 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Biota of North America 2013 county distribution map
- ↑ Daniel L. Axelrod, 1959. Late Cenozoic evolution of the Sierran Bigtree forest. Evolution 13(1): 9–23.
- ↑ The History of the Flora and Vegetation of Georgia by Irina Shatilova, Nino Mchedlishvili, Luara Rukhadze, Eliso Kvavadze, Georgian National Museum Institute of Paleobiology, Tbilisi 2011, ISBN 978-9941-9105-3-1
External links
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Data related to Sequoiadendron at Wikispecies
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