| Class: | ferns |
| Order: | Equisetales |
| Family: | Equisetaceae |
| Editor | S. Rilke & S. Starke, October 2012 |
| Name acc. to: | Wikipedia |
| Herbar: | list records   |
| Description: | A family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds. |
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| genus: 1 | |
| species: 9 | |
| Flower (i)reproductive portion of the plant, consisting of sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils | |
| Ovary position: (i)For entirely or partly fused carpels, describe their position in relation to the insertion point of perianth leaves (best done by doing a longitudinal section of a flower). | absent (i)Without ovary: male flowers  inherited by order Equisetales: absent |
| Root / shoot below ground (i)plant part below ground (in most cases), including below ground shoots, without leaves | |
| Root type: (i)Organisation of the roots. | homorhizous (i)Many equal roots example: Monocotyledonae inherited by vasc. plants: homorhizous |