General characteristics of equisetum
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Equisetum is a "living fossil", the only living genus of the entire class Equisetopsida, which for over 100 million years was much more diverse and dominated the understory of late Paleozoic forests. Some Equisetopsida were large trees reaching to 30 meters tall.[3] The genus Calamites of the family Calamitaceae, for example, is abundant in coal deposits from the Carboniferous period. The pattern of spacing of nodes in horsetails, wherein those toward the apex of the shoot are increasingly close together, inspired John Napier to invent logarithms.[4]
A superficially similar but entirely unrelated flowering plant genus, mare's tail (Hippuris), is occasionally referred to as "horsetail", and adding to confusion, the name mare's tail is sometimes applied to Equisetum.[5]
Despite centuries of use in traditional medicine, there is no evidence that Equisetum has any medicinal properties.
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- Equisetum popularly known the horse tail or scouring rush .
- the plant body is differentiate into stem, root ,leaves
- these are similar to the main vegetative shoot.
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