Evidence for sympodial vascular architecture in a filicalean fern rhizome: Dickwhitea allenbyensis gen. et sp. nov. (Athyriaceae)

International Journal of Plant Sciences

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 721-727

  Karafit, Steven J ^a   Rothwell, Gar W ^a   Stockey, Ruth A ^b   Nishida, Harufumi ^c  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Athyriaceae; Dryopterid; Eocene; Eustele; Fern; Fossil

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; FERN; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; RHIZOME;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; PRINCETON [BRITISH COLUMBIA];

ATHYRIACEAE; FILICALES; FILICOPHYTA;

EID: 33745028080     PISSN: 10585893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501036     Document Type: Article

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