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Minostrobus
Genus Minostrobus Y. Wang Bot. J. Linn. Soc., 136(4): 444. 28 Jul 2001
- Name
- Minostrobus
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Wang Y.
- Publication
- A new lycopsid megaspore cone from the Upper Devonian of Chaohu, China [2001/7]
- Journal
- Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
- Volume
- 136
- Issue
- 4
- Page number
- 444
- Year
- 2001
- Parent Taxon
- [Class] Lepidodendropsida
- Fossil Status
- strobili
- Type
- Minostrobus chaohuensis
- Diagnosis
- Cone with six sporophylls per gyre regularly arranged in a tight helix. Sporophyll with single vein, consisting of a lamina with a pointed apex and smooth margins, associated with a single adaxial sporangium. Sporangia spherical to spherical-elliptical in outline. Each sporangium with four megaspores, spore body with biform ornaments. Xylem exarch in maturation. Plant probably heterosporous.
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