Ginkgoales

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Ginkgoales

an order of the GYMNOSPERMS that is now represented by only a single species Ginkgo biloba, the maidenhair tree. Its ancestors flourished during the MESOZOIC PERIOD.

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and Ginkgoales (among gymnosperms), along with Proteaceae Lomatia and

Patagonian vegetation turnovers during the Paleogene-early Neogene: origin of arid-adapted floras

Mai 1898 (Ginkgoales).--Type: Ginkgo L.; Ginkgoaceae Engl., 1897.

Index nominum familiarum plantarum vascularium

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