Lycopodiopsida - Isoetales - Isoetaceae
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum (exhibentes Plantas Rite Cognitas ad Genera Relatas cum Diferentiis Specificis, Nominibus Trivialibus, Synonymis Selectis, Locis Natalibus secundum Systema Sexuale digestas). 1-1200
Parent taxon: Isoetaceae according to PPG. I 2016
See also Chandra and Tewari 1991, Hill 1987, Knowlton 1919 and Prantl 1874
Sister taxa: Echinosporis, Isoetites, Isoetopsis, Nathorstianella
Subtaxa: Isoetes brevifolius Isoetes janaianus Isoetes lacustris Isoetes reticulata
Type: Isoetes lacustris
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (21 collections), Canada (2: Ontario), North Atlantic (47), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Pliocene of North Atlantic (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Bolivia (1), North Atlantic (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Cretaceous of India (2), Portugal (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 85 collections each including a single occurrence
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