Diversity of Mississippian arborescent lignophytes: A new species of Eristophyton from the middle tournaisian of France

International Journal of Plant Sciences

Volumn 169, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1116-1127

  Decombeix, A L ^a,b   Meyer Berthaud, B ^a,b   Galtier, J ^a,b  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Eristophyton; France; Lignophyte; Mississippian; Trees

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; DEVONIAN-CARBONIFEROUS BOUNDARY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MATURATION; NEW SPECIES; PALEOBOTANY; SEED; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRATIGRAPHY; TAXONOMY; TOURNAISIAN; VASCULAR PLANT; WOODY PLANT; XYLEM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MASSIF CENTRAL; MONTAGNE NOIRE; WESTERN EUROPE;

ARAUCARIA; ERISTOPHYTON; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 54949119590     PISSN: 10585893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/590455     Document Type: Article

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