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Zosterophyllum australianum
Zosterophyllum australianum W.H. Lang, Cookson Philos. Trans., Ser. B, 1931, 219(464): 159. 1 Jan 1931
- Name
- Zosterophyllum australianum
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Zosterophyllum
- Authors (Pub.)
- Lang W. H.
Cookson I. C.
- Publication
- Some fossil plants of Early Devonian type from the Walhalla Series, Victoria, Australia [1931/1]
- Journal
- Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London
- Annee/Jahrgang
- 1931
- Volume
- 219
- Issue
- 464
- Page number
- 159
- Year
- 1931
- Stratigraphy
- Lower Devonian
- Location
- Walhalla Synclinorium, central Victoria, Australia
Data for Syntypus
- Repository
- Museum Victoria, Carlton , Australia
- Diagnosis
- Axis or stalk of strobilus naked below; concealed above by the spirally arranged, short-stalked sporangia. Sporangia tangentially extended, 3–8 mm. across, and about 2 mm. thick; dehiscence by a slit running along the convex upper edge; spores about 75 μ.
