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The horsetails

This group is represented much better than the one of the clubmosses. Leaves, spore cones and parts of the trunks are rather common. The herbaceous genus Sphenophyllum occurs with only one species, but it does in great numbers.

Trunks: Calamites
Leaflets: Annularia and Asterophyllites
Spore cones: Macrostachya and Calamostachys
Herbaceous horsetail: Sphenophyllum

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Calamites
Calamites

Annularia
Leaflets

Calamostachys
Spore cones

Sphenophyllum
Sphenophyllum