Compound pollen cone in a Paleozoic conifer

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1139-1142

  Hernandez Castillo, Genaro R ^a   Rothwell, Gar W ^b   Mapes, Gene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound pollen cone; Conifer; Paleozoic; Seed plant phylogeny; Walchian

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; CONIFERALES; CONIFEROPHYTA; CORDAITALES; GNETALES; GNETOPHYTA; POTONIEISPORITES; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 0004317686     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2657097     Document Type: Article

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