A Late Devonian arborescent lycopsid Sublepidodendron songziense Chen emend. (Sublepidodendraceae Kräusel et Weyland 1949) from China, with a revision of the genus Sublepidodendron (Nathorst) Hirmer 1927

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 127, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 269-305

  Wang, Qi ^a,d   Hao, Shou Gang ^a   Wang, De Ming ^a   Wang, Yi ^b   Denk, Thomas ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^d INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Arborescent lycopsids; Iso tales sensu lato; Late Devonian; Sublepidodendron; Sublepidodendron songziense; Ulodendron; Whole plant species

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBOTANY; PLANT; SPORE; TAXONOMY;

ANHUI; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUBEI;

CHEN; ENTOVALVA; ISOETALES; LEPIDOCARPOPSIS; LEPIDOPHLOIOS; LEPIDOSTROBUS; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; PROTOLEPIDODENDRALES; SUBLEPIDODENDRON MIRABILE; SUBLEPIDODENDRON SONGZIENSE; TRILETES; ULODENDRON; ZAEDYUS PICHIY;

EID: 0141819401     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-6667(03)00132-5     Document Type: Article

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