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Isoetites

fossil plant genus
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  • club moss
    lycophyte
    / Annotated classification

    …growth; heterosporous, with endosporic gametophytes; Isoetites is an extinct genus; for many years the species of Isoetes were difficult to distinguish, but, since the discovery that frequent hybridization was obscuring the differences between species, they are more clearly understood; Isoetes includes about 250 species in swampy, cooler parts of the…

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    …growth; heterosporous, with endosporic gametophytes; Isoetites is an extinct genus; for many years the species of Isoetes were difficult to distinguish, but, since the discovery that frequent hybridization was obscuring the differences between species, they are more clearly understood; Isoetes includes about 250 species in swampy, cooler parts of the…

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