Botanical Family · Equisetales
Equisetaceae
Horsetail Pr Scouring Rush Family
1 speciesOrder Equisetales1+ well-known plants
The Equisetaceae family (Horsetail Pr Scouring Rush Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Equisetales. It is represented by a single species in the SASYA catalogue. That species is a herb.
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Hollow, jointed, ribbed green stems, often unbranched or with whorls of thin branches at each joint, with no true leaves beyond a small toothed sheath at each node; spores form in a small cone-like structure at the stem tip rather than in any flower.
Stems are heavily reinforced with silica, giving the plant a gritty, abrasive texture once used quite literally to scour pots and polish wood, hence the name scouring rush.
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All 1 species in EQUISETACEAE
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