Sublepidodendron grabaui comb. nov., a lycopsid from the Upper Devonian of China

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 299-311

  Wang, Y ^a   Xu, H H ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Branches; Cone; Lepidostrobus grabaui; Sublepidodendraceae; Sublepidodendron wusihense; Trunk

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN;

ISOETALES; LEPIDOSTROBUS; LYCOPODIOPSIDA;

EID: 27744602901     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2005.00442.x     Document Type: Article

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