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|accepted_name=Sequoia
|accepted_authority=Endlicher
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|title=Syn. Conif.
|place=197. 1847
|year=1847
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cupressaceae;Sequoia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cupressaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sequoia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Sequoyah, also known as George Guess, inventor and publisher of the Cherokee alphabet
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism size;whole_organism duration;whole_organism growth form"><b>Trees </b>giant, evergreen.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="branchlet shape;growth constriction prominence;growth constriction duration"><b>Branchlets </b>terete, with obvious annual growth constrictions.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf arrangement;rank quantity"><b>Leaves </b>alternate, mostly in 2 ranks.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf life cycle;leaf shape;leaf shape;leaf arrangement;leaf fixation or orientation"><b>Adult </b>leaves linear or linear-lanceolate to deltate, generally flattened, divergent to strongly appressed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="abaxial gland presence">abaxial glands absent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="sporophyll quantity;pollen-sac quantity"><b>Pollen </b>cones with 6–12 sporophylls, each sporophyll with 2–6 pollen-sacs.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="seed-cone life cycle;seed-cone shape"><b>Seed-</b>cones maturing and opening in 1 season, oblong to globose;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="scale duration;scale quantity;scale arrangement or dehiscence;scale architecture;scale width;scale texture">scales persistent, 15–30, valvate, ± peltate, thick and woody.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="seed quantity;seed shape;seed architecture"><b>Seeds </b>2–7 per scale, lenticular, narrowly 2-winged;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="">cotyledons 2 (–4).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="cotyledon atypical quantity;cotyledon quantity;x chromosome quantity">x = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=Only in the flora
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=schwarz1962a
|text=Schwarz, O. and H. Weide. 1962. Systematische Revision der Gattung Sequoia Endl. Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 66: 159--192.
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name=Sequoia
|author=Frank D. Watson
|authority=Endlicher
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cupressaceae
|distribution=Only in the flora
|reference=schwarz1962a
|publication title=Syn. Conif.
|publication year=1847
|special status=
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|genus=Sequoia
|abaxial gland presence=absent
|branchlet shape=terete
|cotyledon atypical quantity=2;4
|cotyledon quantity=2
|growth constriction duration=annual
|growth constriction prominence=obvious
|leaf arrangement=divergent;alternate
|leaf fixation or orientation=appressed
|leaf life cycle=adult
|leaf shape=flattened;linear-lanceolate;deltate
|pollen-sac quantity=2;6
|rank quantity=2
|scale architecture=peltate
|scale arrangement or dehiscence=valvate
|scale duration=persistent
|scale quantity=15;30
|scale texture=woody
|scale width=thick
|seed architecture=2-winged
|seed quantity=2;7
|seed shape=lenticular
|seed-cone life cycle=maturing
|seed-cone shape=oblong;globose
|sporophyll quantity=6;12
|whole_organism duration=evergreen
|whole_organism growth form=tree
|whole_organism size=giant
|x chromosome quantity=11
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