Spore morphology and evolution in Isoetes (Isoetales) Abstract. Isoetes (Isoetaceae, Isoetales) is a cosmopolitan genus with an ancient and diverse evolutionary history that presumably peaked in the Palaeozoic

Spore morphology and evolution in Isoetes, with some great SEM images. #Quillwort #Isoëtes

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A hand holding half a dozen pieces of Quillwort (an aquatic lycophyte)

Yellow flowers stretching away into the distance, with a lake and rainclouds beyond.

A productive couple of hours scouring a shoreline in the rain and sifting through hundreds of broken specimens. Managed to find a handful of #Isoetes quills 😊 and a few invasive non-natives 🙁. #Quillwort

(PDF) A comparative study of spore germination of some Isoetes species of northeastern North America PDF | Germination of megaspores and microspores of five Isoetes species is described. Under laboratory conditions spore samples were subjected to cold,... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

Did you check this classical paper on germination of Canadian #Quillwort spores? I bet you did! www.researchgate.net/publication/...