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Definition of Quillworts

Quillwort
Quillwort Quill"wort`, n. (Bot.) Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes, cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves.

Meaning of Quillworts from wikipedia

- that dries out in the summer. The quillworts are spore-producing plants and highly reliant on water dispersion. Quillworts have different ways to spread their...
- louisianensis, the Louisiana quillwort, is a small, gr****-like aquatic plant of the family Isoetaceae. It is "one of the rarest quillworts in North America." It...
- Members of the class are also called clubmosses, firmosses, spikemosses and quillworts. They have dichotomously branching stems bearing simple leaves called...
- [citation needed] This species is one of a few cultivated species of quillworts, either as an aquarium plant or as an educational resource.[citation needed]...
- 140-150 living species, all of which are classified in the genus Isoetes (quillworts), with a cosmopolitan distribution, but often scarce to rare. Living species...
- Lycopodiales, clubmosses Order Selaginellales, spikemosses Order Isoetales, quillworts and scale trees class Polypodiopsida, true ferns Subclass Equisetidae...
- related to the more famous Lepidodendron, and more distantly to modern quillworts. This genus is known in the fossil records from as early as the Middle...
- (often treated as ferns), and lycophytes (clubmosses, spikemosses, and quillworts) are all pteridophytes. However, they do not form a monophyletic group...
- Appalachian quillwort is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Isoetes appalachiana, native to the eastern United States Isoetes engelmannii...
- "giant club mosses", the genus was actually more closely related to modern quillworts than to modern club mosses. In the form classification system used in...