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Baragwanathia
Genus Baragwanathia W.H. Lang, Cookson Philos. Trans., Ser. B, 224(517): 446. 23 Mar 1935
- Name
- Baragwanathia
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Lang W. H.
Cookson I. C.
- Publication
- On a flora, including vascular land plants, associated with Monograptus, in rocks of Silurian age, from Victoria, Australia [1935/3]
- Journal
- Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London
- Volume
- 224
- Issue
- 517
- Page number
- 446
- Year
- 1935
- Parent Taxon
- [Family] Baragwanathiaceae
- Fossil Status
- leafy stems
- Type
- Baragwanathia longifolia
- Diagnosis
- Stems of considerable size clothed with spirally arranged, long, simple leaves. Leaves maintaining a uniform width, not contracted from a markedly expanded base and not spine-like. Sporangia, among the leaf-insertions in certain zones of the ordinary shoots; possibly adaxially, near the bases of leaves. Large cylindrical central cylinder with primary xylem, which is stellate in cross-section and composed of uniform tracheides with narrow annular thickening.
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