Rhynia is a single-species genus of Devonian vascular plants. Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii was the sporophyte generation of a vascular, axial, free-sporing...

major was first described by Kidston and Lang in 1920 as the new species Rhynia major. The species is known only from the Rhynie chert in Aberdeenshire...

extinct early vascular plants that are considered to be similar to the genus Rhynia, found in the Early Devonian (around 419 to 393 million years ago). Sources...

only found on the land - none lived in the water of lakes or hot springs. Rhynia typically grew on sandy surfaces, and is often preserved there in life position;...

plant in the Rhynie chert in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and named it Rhynia. The Rhynia plant was small and stick-like, with simple dichotomously branching...

Transverse section of a fossil stem of the Devonian vascular plant Rhynia gwynne-vaughani...

established in 1917, under the name Psilophyta, with only three genera (Rhynia, Horneophyton and Psilophyton) for a group of fossil plants from the Upper...

normally on Psilotum. Enations are also found on some early plants such as Rhynia, where they are hypothesized to have aided in photosynthesis. "Lower vascular...

which the sporophyte is more developed than the gametophyte. Genera such as Rhynia have a similar life-cycle but have simple tracheids and so are a kind of...

became a dominant part of floras in the Jurassic. Cross-section of a stem of Rhynia, an early land plant, preserved in Rhynie chert from the early Devonian...