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Equisetites is an extinct genus of vascular plants within Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds. The genus was named by Sternberg (1833) and contains at least 40 named species and two unnamed species, with the earliest known species being E. hemingwayi from the Westphalian of Yorkshire, England, though the affinity of this genus to modern Equistaceae is uncertain.
Equisetites likely reproduced via the spore-bearing strobili which have been preserved in some specimens, and has also been proposed to be capable of asexual Vegetative reproduction via shed twigs and adventurous roots.
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