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n. - Type and genus of Quillworts and sole extant genus of the order that includes aquatic or marsh-growing ferns.

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  • Isoetes palustris, Erianthus giganteus and Thalia geniculata.
  • There are isolated groves of the rare endemic Kamchatkan fir Abies gracilis, also Sakhalin fir Abies sachalinensis, unusual thermally influenced caldera communities and several...
  • In those cases in which certain species readily grow in each other's company -- and cases of this kind are familiar to florists -- when, for instance, Isoetes, Lobelia
  • Ancient aquatic plant on the rocks - Isoetes eludens, a species of an ancient group of spore-plants known as quillworts, and so named because it eluded its discoverers...
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