The rhyniophytes are a group of extinct early vascular plants that are considered to be similar to the genus Rhynia, found in the Early Devonian (around...
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Tracheobionta and Equisetopsida sensu lato. Some early land plants (the rhyniophytes) had less developed vascular tissue; the term eutracheophyte has been...
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Australia. In the late Silurian, two distinctive lineages, zosterophylls and rhyniophytes, had colonised the tropics. The former evolved into the lycopods that...
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Psilotum and the rhyniophytes and trimerophytes are that the development of its vascular strand is exarch, while it is centrarch in rhyniophytes and trimerophytes...
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center of a metaxylem cylinder) haplostele is prevalent in members of the rhyniophyte grade, such as Rhynia. actinostele – a variation of the protostele in...
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of names have been used, which the table below summarizes. For Banks, rhyniophytes comprised simple leafless plants with terminal sporangia (e.g., Cooksonia...
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coordinates 71° 48′ 0″ S, 49° 36′ 0″ W. Dutoitia, a genus of Devonian rhyniophyte, named after the South African geologist Alex du Toit This page lists...
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hornworts †Horneophytopsida Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta – rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta – zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta – clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta...
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thought to be a "living fossil" closely related to early land plants (rhyniophytes). However, genetic analysis has shown Psilotum to be a reduced fern....
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early land plants. It has characteristics both of the non-lycophyte rhyniophytes – terminal rather than lateral sporangia – and of the zosterophylls –...
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