Revision of Fossil Sequoia and Taxodium in Western North ...
Chaney, Ralph W![Revision of Fossil Sequoia and Taxodium in Western North America Based on the Recent Discovery of Metasequoia](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/458/45831869/CHSBZCOP0345831869.jpg)
The recently discovered redwood of China, "Metasequoia glyptostroboides" Hu & Cheng, shows close relationship to two North American trees, the coast redwood, "Sequoia sempervirens" Endlicher of the western U.S., & the swamp cypress, "Taxodium distichum" Richard of the Southeastern U.S. Foliage & cones of these living trees provide characters by which the three genera may be readily distinguished. But for nearly a century there has been confusi...