| Sequoiadendron Temporal range:
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| Trees in Sequoia National Park | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Gymnospermae |
| Division: | Pinophyta |
| Class: | Pinopsida |
| Order: | Cupressales |
| Family: | Cupressaceae |
| Subfamily: | Sequoioideae |
| Genus: | Sequoiadendron J.Buchholz |
| Type species | |
| Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindley) J.Buchholz
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Sequoiadendron synonymy
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Sequoiadendron is a genus of evergreen trees, with three species, only one of which survives to the present:[1]
- Sequoiadendron giganteum, extant, commonly known as wellingtonia, giant redwood and giant sequoia,[2] growing naturally in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California[3]
- † Sequoiadendron chaneyi, the predecessor of Sequoiadendron giganteum, found mostly in the Nevada area of the Tertiary Colorado Plateau until the late Miocene[4]
- †Sequoiadendron tchucoticum Late Cretaceous; Enmyvaam River Basin, Russia[5]
- ^ a b "Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families".
- ^ "Wellingtonia – Sequoiadendron giganteum". NatureSpot. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ^ "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.
- ^ A. B. Sokolova; M. G. Moiseeva (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.