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Ephedraceae
Family of plants / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ephedraceae is a family of gymnosperms belonging to Gnetophyta, it contains only a single extant genus, Ephedra, as well as a number of extinct genera from the Early Cretaceous.
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Ephedraceae | |
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Ephedra nevadensis | |
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Restoration of Arlenea from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Gymnospermae |
Division: | Gnetophyta |
Class: | Gnetopsida |
Order: | Ephedrales Dumort.[1] |
Family: | Ephedraceae Dumort.[2] |
Type genus | |
Ephedra | |
Other genera | |
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