Sequoiadendron

Sequoiadendron
Temporal range: Santonian– Present
Trees in Sequoia National Park
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
Species
Synonyms[1]
Sequoiadendron synonymy
  • Americus
    Hanford, rejected name
  • Steinhauera C.Presl 1838, not Goepp. 1835 (Altingiaceae)
  • Washingtonia Winslow 1854, rejected name, not H. Wendl. 1879 (Arecaceae) not Raf. ex J.M. Coult. & Rose 1900 (Apiaceae)
  • Wellingtonia Lindl. 1853, illegitimate homonym, not Meisn. 1840 (Sabiaceae)

Sequoiadendron is a genus of evergreen trees, with three species, only one of which survives to the present:[1]

  1. ^ a b "Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families".
  2. ^ "Wellingtonia – Sequoiadendron giganteum". NatureSpot. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
  3. ^ "2013 county distribution map". Biota of North America.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.