How Paleozoic Vines and Lianas Got off the Ground: On Scrambling and Climbing Carboniferous-Early Permian Pteridosperms

Botanical Review

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 204-224

  Krings, Michael ^a   Kerp, Hans ^b   Taylor, Thomas N ^c   Taylor, Edith L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 0347029967     PISSN: 00068101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1663/0006-8101(2003)069[0204:HPVALG]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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