Endemic fossil seed plants from China and a reassessment of coniferophyte phylogeny

Progress in Natural Science

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 773-774

  Hilton, Jason ^a   Wang, Shijun ^a   Chen, Zhiduan ^a   Tian, Baolin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Coniferales; Coniferophyte; Cordaitales; Evolution; Phytogeny

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; SEED;

CLADISTIC ANALYSIS; CONIFERALE; CONIFEROPHYTE; CORDAITALE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS; FOSSIL PLANT; PHYTOGENY; PLANT SPECIES; SEED PLANTS;

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

EID: 21144457940     PISSN: 10020071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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