Teratisms in living and fossil megaspores of the Lycopsida: Tetrad arrangement and exine ontogeny

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-24

  Hemsley, Alan R ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colloidal self assembly; Spore wall development; Sporopollenin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CARBONIFEROUS; LAGENICULA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; SELAGINELLA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 0030671481     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bojl.1997.9999     Document Type: Article

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