A new group of Early Devonian plants with valvate sporangia containing sculptured permanent dyads

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 229-257

  Edwards, Dianne ^a   Richardson, John B ^b   Axe, Lindsey ^a   Davies, Kevin L ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bryophytes; Cryptospores; Development; Embryophytes; Liverworts; Meiosis; Tetrads; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTE; DEVONIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; MICROFOSSIL; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NEW GENUS; SPORE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ENGLAND; SHROPSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CYMBOHILATES; DYADOSPORA; EMBRYOPHYTA; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84857038092     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2011.01207.x     Document Type: Article

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