Isoetes stephanseniae
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Isoetes stephanseniae
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Isoetes stephanseniae, the granite quillwort, is a species of quillwort from South Africa, named for A. J. Stephansen, who discovered it in 1927. Of very limited distribution, it is known to survive only as one population in seasonal pools over granite near Stellenbosch, where it is threatened by the encroachment of alien species and eutrophication from the sewage works on whose grounds it grows. Like other quillworts, it bears a tuft of leaves with distinctively sculpted megaspores. It is most
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South African endemic quillwort species
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoetes_stephanseniae
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2023-12-31T23:58:26Z
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