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characteristicsSphenophyta (also called horsetails and scouring rushes) is a division represented by a single living genus (Equisetum). It has a worldwide distribution but occurs in greater variety in the Northern Hemisphere. Like the lycopods, the sphenophytes were a diverse and prominent group of vascular plants during the Carboniferous Period, when some genera attained great size in the coal-forming...
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