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Sequoia (coast redwood)
Taxonomy
Sequoia was named by Endlicher (1847). It is extant. It is the type genus of Sequoioideae. It was considered monophyletic by Gadek et al. (2000).
It was assigned to Abietineae by Ettinghausen (1880); to Coniferae by Knowlton (1899); to Taxodieae by Knowlton (1919) and Knowlton (1926); to Taxodineae by Chandler (1961), Chandler (1962), Chandler (1963), Chandler (1964) and Chandler (1978); to Taxodiaceae by Berry (1914), Liu et al. (1996) and Mabberley (2000); and to Sequoioideae by Gadek et al. (2000), Ahuja and Neale (2002) and Zhang and Zhou (2015).
It was assigned to Abietineae by Ettinghausen (1880); to Coniferae by Knowlton (1899); to Taxodieae by Knowlton (1919) and Knowlton (1926); to Taxodineae by Chandler (1961), Chandler (1962), Chandler (1963), Chandler (1964) and Chandler (1978); to Taxodiaceae by Berry (1914), Liu et al. (1996) and Mabberley (2000); and to Sequoioideae by Gadek et al. (2000), Ahuja and Neale (2002) and Zhang and Zhou (2015).
Species
S. acuminata, S. acutifolia, S. affinis, S. albertensis, S. ambigua (syn. Arthrotaxopsis expansa, Sphenolepidium dentifolium, Sphenolepidium recurvifolium), S. angustifolia, S. bowerbankii (syn. Petrophiloides cylindricus, Petrophiloides cellularis), S. brevifolia, S. burgessii, S. charlottensis, S. concinna, S. condita, S. couttsiae, S. cuneata, S. cycadopsis, S. delicatula, S. fairbanksi, S. fastigiata, S. formosa, S. gracilis, S. gracillima, S. heerii, S. heterophylla, S. jeholensis, S. langsdorfii, S. longifolia, S. magnifica, S. magnifolia, S. maguanensis, S. minor, S. nordenskioeldii, S. obovata, S. pagiophylloides, S. penhallowi, S. reichenbachi (syn. S. densifolia, S. inferna), S. rigida, S. sempervirens, S. smittiana, S. spinosa, S. winchellii
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1847 | Sequoia Endlicher |
| 1880 | Sequoia Ettinghausen p. 393 |
| 1899 | Sequoia Knowlton |
| 1914 | Sequoia Berry p. 23 |
| 1919 | Sequoia Knowlton |
| 1926 | Sequoia Knowlton |
| 1961 | Sequoia Chandler p. 60 |
| 1962 | Sequoia Chandler p. 20 |
| 1963 | Sequoia Chandler p. 44 |
| 1964 | Sequoia Chandler p. 97 |
| 1978 | Sequoia Chandler p. 40 |
| 1996 | Sequoia Liu et al. |
| 2000 | Sequoia Gadek et al. |
| 2000 | Sequoia Mabberley |
| 2002 | Sequoia Ahuja and Neale p. 93 figs. Table 1 |
| 2015 | Sequoia Zhang and Zhou |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Sequoia Endlicher 1847 [coast redwood]
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†Sequoia acuminata Lesquereux 1875
†Sequoia acutifolia Newberry 1891
†Sequoia affinis Lesquereux 1876
†Sequoia albertensis Penhallow 1908
†Sequoia ambigua Heer 1878
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Invalid names: Arthrotaxopsis expansa Fontaine 1906 [synonym], Sphenolepidium dentifolium Fontaine 1889 [synonym], Sphenolepidium recurvifolium Fontaine 1889 [synonym]
†Sequoia angustifolia Lesquereux 1872
†Sequoia bowerbankii Ettingshausen and Gardner 1879
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Invalid names: Petrophiloides cellularis Bowerbank 1840 [synonym], Petrophiloides cylindricus Bowerbank 1840 [synonym]
†Sequoia brevifolia Heer 1868
†Sequoia burgessii Penhallow 1903
†Sequoia charlottensis Knowlton 1919
†Sequoia concinna Heer 1906
†Sequoia condita Lesquereux 1875
†Sequoia couttsiae Heer 1862
†Sequoia cuneata Newberry 1863
†Sequoia cycadopsis Fontaine 1889
†Sequoia delicatula Fontaine 1889
†Sequoia fairbanksi Fontaine 1905
†Sequoia fastigiata Sternberg 1833
†Sequoia formosa Lesquereux 1868
†Sequoia gracilis Heer 1873
†Sequoia gracillima Lesquereux 1868
†Sequoia heerii Lesquereux 1871
†Sequoia heterophylla Velenovsky 1885
†Sequoia jeholensis Endo 1951
†Sequoia langsdorfii Heer 1877
†Sequoia longifolia Lesquereux 1875
†Sequoia magnifica Knowlton 1898
†Sequoia magnifolia Knowlton 1916
†Sequoia maguanensis Zhang and Zhou 2015
†Sequoia minor Velenovsky 1886
†Sequoia nordenskioeldii Heer 1870
†Sequoia obovata Knowlton 1916
†Sequoia pagiophylloides Fontaine 1893
†Sequoia penhallowi Jeffrey 1904
†Sequoia reichenbachi Heer 1868
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Invalid names: Sequoia densifolia Fontaine 1889 [synonym], Sequoia inferna Ward 1905 [synonym]
†Sequoia rigida Heer 1873
Sequoia sempervirens Don 1824 [coast redwood]
†Sequoia smittiana Heer 1872
†Sequoia spinosa Newberry 1882
†Sequoia winchellii Lesquereux 1884
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available