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First edition

1 online resource (xxiv, 256 pages)

ISBN 9781421449395 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781421449388 (print)

Print version: Gee, Carole T. Rooted in Time : Living Fossils and Other Tenacious Plants. First edition. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2024 xxiv, 256 pages ISBN 9781421449388

Includes index

Preface. The making of a plant lover -- Living fossils : morphological look-alikes, tenacious survivors, and relict members of ancient lineages -- Cyanobacteria and stromatolites : the toughest and longest-lived green survivors -- Standing tall -- Clubmosses & Co. -- The horsetail or scouring rush equisetum -- Ferns and tree ferns -- Bearing seeds and woody cones -- Cycads -- The maidenhair tree ginkgo -- Araucarias, kauris, and the wollemi pine -- Podocarps -- The dawn redwood metasequoia -- The japanese umbrella pine sciadopitys -- Coming into flower -- The waterlilies nymphaea and nuphar -- The sacred lotus nelumbo -- The mangrove palm nypa.

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(OCoLC)1446161920