Equisetum scirpoides

Equisetum scirpoides

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Equisetales 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Tracheophyta
Divisio: Pteridophyta
Classis: Equisetopsida
Ordo: Equisetales

Familia: Equisetaceae
Genus: Equisetum
Subgenus: E. subg. Hippochaete
Species:

Name

Equisetum scirpoides Michx., 1803.

Synonyms

  • Equisetum hiemale var. tenellum Liljeb.
  • Equisetum reptans Wahlenb.
  • Equisetum scirpoides var. alpestre Rosend.
  • Equisetum scirpoides var. caespitosum Rosend.
  • Equisetum scirpoides var. elatum Rosend.
  • Equisetum scirpoides var. minus G.Lawson
  • Equisetum scirpoides var. pedunculatum Rosend.
  • Equisetum scirpoides var. ramulosum Rosend.
  • Equisetum setaceum Vauch.
  • Equisetum tenellum A.A.Eat.
  • Hippochaete scirpoides (Michx.) Farw.
  • Hippochaete scirpoides (Michx.) Rothm.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
  • Continental: Eurasia
    • +Austria, +Finland, Norway, Spitsbergen, Sweden, Siberia (W-Siberia, C-Siberia, Novaya Zemlja), Russian Far East (incl. Kamchatka), Japan, N-, C- & E-European Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China (Nei Mongol, Xinjiang), North Korea
  • Continental: Northern America
    • Alaska, USA (Connecticut, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New York, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington State, Wisconsin, Wyoming), Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Labrador, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Northern Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Isl., Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon), Greenland, St. Pierre et Miquelon

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

  • Michaux, A. 1803. Flora Boreali-Americana: sistens caracteres plantarum quas in America septentrionali collegit et detexit Andreas Michaux. Vol. 2. 340 pp. Parisiis et Argentorati [Paris & Strasbourg]: fratres Levrault. BHL Reference page. : 2: 281.

Vernacular names

  • English: dwarf scouring rush, dwarf Horsetail
  • eesti: Alssosi
  • suomi: Hentokorte
  • français: Prêle faux-scirpe
  • norsk nynorsk: Dvergsnelle
  • norsk: Dvergsnelle
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