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Lycaugea edieae
Lycaugea edieae Mey.-Berth., Decombeix, Rom. Blanch. Int. J. Pl. Sci., 182(6): 000 [5] 423. 12 May 2021
- Name
- Lycaugea edieae
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Lycaugea
- Authors (Pub.)
- Meyer-Berthaud B.
Decombeix A.-L.
Blanchard R.
- Publication
- Lycaugea edieae gen. et sp. nov., a Late Devonian lycopsid from New South Wales, Australia [2021/5]
- Journal
- International Journal of Plant Sciences
- Volume
- 182
- Issue
- 6
- Page number
- 000 [5] 423
- Year
- 2021
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Famennian
- Strat. comment
- Mandowa Mudstone
- Location
- Connors crossing, left bank of the Manilla River, Barraba, northeastern New South Wales, Australia
- Paleoregion
- Gondwana (Australia)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
- Repository Number
- 161.999.0
- Diagnosis
- Axes up to 1 cm in diameter or more. Leaf bases obovoid in face view, 1 mm in height and width. Diameter of metaxylem tracheids ranging from 90 μm near pith to 30 μm near protoxylem ring. Diameter of protoxylem tracheids 10–20 μm. Inner cortex narrow, consisting of flattened thin-walled cells. Middle cortex as wide as outer cortex. Outer cortex consisting of 65–250-μm-long thick-walled cells decreasing from 70 to 40 μm in diameter outwardly.
