Tracheid structure in a primitive extant plant provides an evolutionary link to earliest fossil tracheids

International Journal of Plant Sciences

Volumn 159, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 881-890

  Cook, Martha E ^a   Friedman, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; EVOLUTION; SILURIAN; VASCULAR PLANT;

HUPERZIA;

EID: 0032414990     PISSN: 10585893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314082     Document Type: Article

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