Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Family
Chapter:
422.11.00
422.11.00 Isoetaceae
Name: Isoëtales; Isoetopsida.
English: Quillworts; Spikemosses; Scale trees.
Botany: 1 genus, Isoëtes; ± 150 species; cosmopolitan; rare; aquatic or semi-aquatic; leaves slender and broadens downward to a swollen base, in clusters; root, a corm, bulb-like, underground; heterosporous; many extinct and fossil species, from Carboniferous and Triassic era.