Equisetaceae

Michaux ex de Candolle
Common names: Horsetail Family
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 2. Treatment on page 76.

Plants with jointed stems, with distinct nodes. Leaves small, whorled, fused into sheaths; tips remaining free, toothlike. Sporangia borne on peltate sporophylls aggregated in cones 0.3–10 cm. Spores green (except white in hybrids), all 1 kind. Gametophytes green, terrestrial, unisexual; male gametophytes smaller than female.

Discussion

Genus 1, species 15 (11 species in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa