List of articles in "Eukaryote" category - Page 1520

Ginkgoales is a plant order containing only one extant species: Ginkgo biloba the ginkgo tree. It is monotypic (the only taxon) within the class Ginkgoopsida which itself is monotypic within […]

Northern Dancer (May 27 1961 – November 16 1990) was a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes and who became the most successful sire of […]

Ophioglossales (lit. ‘snake-tongue-plant’) are a small group of pteridophyte plants. Traditionally they are included in the division Pteridophyta the ferns originally as a family and later as the order Ophioglossales. […]

Helios (/ˈhiːli.ɒs/; Ancient Greek: Ἥλιος Hēlios; Latinized as Helius; Ἠέλιος in Homeric Greek) was the personification of the Sun in Greek mythology. Homer often calls him Titan or Hyperion while […]

Ophioglossum the adder’s-tongue ferns is a genus of about 25-30 species of ferns in the family Ophioglossaceae of the order Ophioglossales. The name Ophioglossum comes from the Greek and means […]

Equisetum (/ˌɛkwɨˈsiːtəm/; horsetail snake grass puzzlegrass) is the only living genus in Equisetaceae a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds.Equisetum is a living fossil as […]

Isoëtes (sometimes spelled Isoetes) commonly known as the quillworts is a genus of plants in the class Isoëtopsida and order Isoëtales. They are lycopods. There are about 140–150 species with […]

Selaginella is a genus of plants in the family Selaginellaceae the spikemosses. Many scientists still place the Selaginellales in the class Lycopodiopsida (often misconstructed as Lycopsida). This group of plants […]

The Lycopodiopsida are a class of plants often loosely grouped as the fern allies. Traditionally the group included not only the clubmosses and firmosses but also the spikemosses (Selaginella and […]

Bracken (Pteridium) is a genus of large coarse ferns in the family Dennstaedtiaceae. Ferns (Pteridophyta) are vascular plants that have alternating generations large plants that produce spores and small plants […]