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Family: Ginkgophyta
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> Gymnospermae
This group of plants
flourished in the mid-Mesozoic (about 140 million years ago) but
diminished in the later Mesozoic and Tertiary. Seven genera have been
recorded from fossils but only one of them, Ginkgo, has survived to
the present, represented by a single species, Ginkgo
biloba (Maidenhair Tree) which is
native to China.
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