Ginkgo
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This article is about the genus of mainly extinct trees. For its single extant species, the ginkgo tree, see Ginkgo biloba. For the biotech company, see Ginkgo Bioworks.
Ginkgo is a genus of non-flowering seed plants. The scientific name is also used as the English name. The order to which it belongs, Ginkgoales, first appeared in the Permian,[3] 270 million years ago, and Ginkgo is now the only living genus within the order. The rate of evolution within the genus has been slow, and almost all its species had become extinct by the end of the Pliocene. The sole surviving species, Ginkgo biloba, is found in the wild only in China, but is cultivated around the world. The relationships between ginkgos and other groups of plants are not fully resolved.
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Ginkgo | |
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Ginkgo biloba Eocene, McAbee, B.C., Canada | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Gymnospermae |
Division: | Ginkgophyta |
Class: | Ginkgoopsida |
Order: | Ginkgoales |
Family: | Ginkgoaceae |
Genus: | Ginkgo L. [1] |
Type species | |
Ginkgo biloba | |
Species | |
Synonyms [2] | |
Salisburia Sm. |
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