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Sequoia is a genus of redwood coniferous trees in the subfamily Sequoioideae of the family Cupressaceae. The only extant species of the genus is Sequoia sempervirens in the Northern California coastal forests ecoregion of Northern California and Southwestern Oregon in the United States.
Sequoia sempervirens (/ s ə ˈ k w ɔɪ. ə ˌ s ɛ m p ər ˈ v aɪ r ən z /) [3] is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae (formerly treated in Taxodiaceae). Common names include coast redwood, coastal redwood and California redwood. It is an evergreen, long-lived, monoecious tree living 1,200 ...
Sequoioideae is an ancient taxon, with the oldest described Sequoioideae species, Sequoia jeholensis, recovered from Jurassic deposits. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The fossil wood Medulloprotaxodioxylon , reported from the late Triassic of China, resembles Sequoiadendron giganteum and may represent an ancestral form of the Sequoioideae; this supports the ...
General Grant tree, General Grant Grove, Kings Canyon National Park, 2007. Giant sequoias occur naturally in only one place on Earth—the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California, on moist, unglaciated ridges and valleys [8] at an altitude of 1,500 to 2,400 meters (5,000 to 8,000 ft) above mean sea level.
Despite the wide overall distribution, many genera and species show very restricted relictual distributions, and many are endangered species. The world's largest (Sequoiadendron giganteum) and current tallest (Sequoia sempervirens) trees belong to the Cupressaceae, as do six of the ten longest-lived tree species.
Sequoia (genus) (2 C, 9 P) Sequoiadendron (2 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Sequoioideae" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Sequoioideae, a three-genus subfamily of the cypress family Sequoia, a genus with one living and several fossil species Sequoia sempervirens, coast redwood, found along the coast of California and Oregon; Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia), the sequoia tree found on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada of California; Metasequoia, dawn redwood
Pages in category "Sequoia (genus)" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...