Sequoia

.Sequoia is a genus of redwood coniferous trees in the subfamily Sequoioideae of the family Cupressaceae

The name Sequoia was first published as a genus name by the Austrian botanist Stephan Endlicher in 1847
.The only extant species of the genus is Sequoia sempervirens in the Northern California coastal forests ecoregion

.In a 2012 article, author Gary Lowe argues that Endlicher would not have had the knowledge to conceive of Sequoia sempervirens as the successor to a fossil sequence

.Beginning in the 1860s, it was suggested that the name is instead a derivation from the Latin word for \"sequence\", since the species was thought to be a follower or remnant of massive ancient, extinct species