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|accepted_name=Sequoia
|accepted_authority=Endlicher
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|title=Syn. Conif.
|place=197. 1847
|year=1847
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|hierarchy=Cupressaceae;Sequoia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cupressaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sequoia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Sequoyah, also known as George Guess, inventor and publisher of the Cherokee alphabet
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>giant, evergreen. <b>Branchlets</b> terete, with obvious annual growth constrictions. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, mostly in 2 ranks. <b>Adult</b> leaves linear or linear-lanceolate to deltate, generally flattened, divergent to strongly appressed; abaxial glands absent. <b>Pollen</b> cones with 6–12 sporophylls, each sporophyll with 2–6 pollen sacs. <b>Seed</b> cones maturing and opening in 1 season, oblong to globose; scales persistent, 15–30, valvate, ± peltate, thick and woody. <b>Seeds</b> 2–7 per scale, lenticular, narrowly 2-winged; cotyledons 2(–4). <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=Only in the flora.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=schwarz1962a
|text=Schwarz, O. and H. Weide. 1962. Systematische Revision der Gattung Sequoia Endl. Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 66: 159--192.
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name=Sequoia
|author=Frank D. Watson
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|parent rank=family
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|family=Cupressaceae
|distribution=Only in the flora.
|reference=schwarz1962a
|publication title=Syn. Conif.
|publication year=1847
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|genus=Sequoia
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