Taxonomy

• Kingdom: Plantae
• Clade: Tracheophytes
• Clade: Monilophytes
• Class: Polypodiopsida
• Subclass: Equisetidae
• Order: Equisetales
• Family: Equisetaceae
• Genus: Equisetum
• Subgenus: Hippochaete
• Species: Equisetum ramosissimum

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

• Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
• Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Notes

The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:

• E. ramosissimum var. ramosissimum Desf., 1799: diploid (2n = 216), P;
• E. ramosissimum var. huegelii (Milde) Christenh. & Husby, 2019.

Hybridizes with:

• E. hyemale subsp. affine (Engelm.) Calder & Roy L.Taylor, 1965 to produce E. × moorei nothosubsp. nipponicum Lubienski, 2022;
• E. hyemale subsp. hyemale L., 1753 to produce E. × moorei nothosubsp. moorei Newman, 1856, P;
• E. × moorei Newman, 1856 (E. hyemale × E. ramosissimum) to produce E. × ascendens Lubienski & Bennert, 2010, P;
• E. varigatum Schleich. ex F.Weber & D.Mohr, 1807 to produce E. × meridionale (Milde) Chiov., 1929, P.

Photographs

Sources

• Badré, F., & Deschatres, R. (1979). Les Ptéridophytes de la France : liste commentée des espèces (taxinomie, cytologie, écologie et répartition générale). Candollea, 34(2), 379-457. https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-880127

• Christenhusz, M., Bento Elias, R., Dyer, R., Ivanenko, Y., Rouhan, G., Rumsey, F., & Väre, H. (2017). Equisetum ramosissimum (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2017. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/14828406/83694137

• Prelli, R., & Boudrie, M. (2024). Les fougères et plantes alliées d’Europe (2nd ed., p. 108). Biotope.

• Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 16). Biotope.