View source for Equisetum subg. Hippochaete

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|accepted_name=Equisetum subg. Hippochaete
|accepted_authority=(J. Milde) Baker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Handb. Fern-Allies
|place=3. 1887
|year=1887
}}
|common_names=Scouring rush
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Undefined subg. Hippochaete
|authority=J.Milde
|rank=subgenus
|publication_title=Bot. Zeitung (Berlin)
|publication_place=23: 297. 1865
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Equisetaceae;Equisetum;Equisetum subg. Hippochaete
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Equisetaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Equisetum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Equisetum subg. Hippochaete]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Aerial </b>stems persisting more than a year (except <i>Equisetum laevigatum</i>), with sunken stomates in single lines on each side of stem valleys; branches generally lacking or few (except <i>E. ramosissimum</i>). <b>Cones</b> sharply pointed at apex (except <i>E. laevigatum</i>).</span><!--

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|distribution=Nearly worldwide.
|discussion=<p>The only species of this subgenus in the flora that is regularly branched, bearing several branches per midstem node, is <i>Equisetum ramosissimum</i>. The others, though normally unbranched, with age or injury may develop one or a few branches, usually from the proximal or most distal nodes.</p><!--
--><p>Species 7 (5 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=hauke1963a
|text=Hauke, R.L. 1963. A taxonomic monograph of Equisetum subgenus Hippochaete. Beih. Nova Hedwigia 8: 1--123.
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name=Equisetum subg. Hippochaete
|authority=(J. Milde) Baker
|rank=subgenus
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Undefined subg. Hippochaete
|family=Equisetaceae
|distribution=Nearly worldwide.
|reference=hauke1963a
|publication title=Handb. Fern-Allies
|publication year=1887
|special status=
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|genus=Equisetum
|subgenus=Equisetum subg. Hippochaete
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