Sequoiadendron
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| Trees in Sequoia National Park | |
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| Sequoiadendron chaneyi foliage fossil, Nevada | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| 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 and macrofossils may have been found as early as the Cretaceous[4] and throughout the Northern Hemisphere,[5] including locations in western Georgia in the Caucasus region.[6]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families".
- ^ "2013 county distribution map". Biota of North America.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
External links[]
Media related to Sequoiadendron at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Sequoiadendron at Wikispecies
Categories:
- Sequoiadendron
- Endemic flora of California
- Conifer genera