HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE PHYLUM ZOSTEROPHYLLOPHYTA
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ZOSTEROPHYLLOPHYTA LINKS
| This system comes from Kenrick and Crane (1997). |
CLASS ZOSTEROPHYLLOPSIDA
- ORDER SAWDONIALES
- Pseudomonopodial growth; sporangia distributed over several orders of branches.
- Sawdonia, Anisophyton, Konioria, Crenaticaulis, Deheubarthia, Serrulacaulis
- Gosslingia, Oricilla, Tarella
- Barinophyton, Protobarinophyton
- Hsua
- Baragwanathia
- ORDER ZOSTEROPHYLLALES.
- Simple erect branches with lateral sporangia.
- Zosterophyllum, Rebouchia, Discalis
| LITERATURE CITED Banks, H. P. 1975. Reclassification of Psilophyta. Taxon. 24: 401-413. Bierhorst, D. W. 1971. Morphology of Vascular Plants. In: N. H. Giles and J. G. Torrey. The MacMillan Biology Series. The MacMillan Co. New York. Bold, H. C., C. J. Alexopoulos, and T. Delevoryas. 1987. Morphology of Plants and Fungi. 5th Edition. HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. New York. Doyle, J. A. 1998b. Phylogeny of vascular plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 29:567-599. Kenrick, P. and P. R. Crane. 1997b. The Origin and Early Diversification of Land Plants: A Cladistic Study. Smithsonian Institute Press. Washington, DC. Northington, D. K. and J. R. Goodin. 1984. The Botanical World. Times Mirror/Mosby College Publishing, St. Louis. Zhu, W.-Q. and P. Kenrick. 1999. A Zosterophyllum-like plant from the lower Devonian of Yunnan Province, China. Review of Palaeobotany and {alynology. 105: 111-118. |
| By Jack R. Holt. Last revised: 04/09/2010 |
