Sichuania D.Edwards et C.S.Li

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000314

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:314

Authors: D. Edwards & C. S. Li

Rank: genus

Reference: Edwards, D. & Li, C. -S. (2018): Further insights into the Lower Devonian terrestrial vegetation of Sichuan Province, China. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 253: 37–48.

Page of description: 45

Type

Sichuania uskielloides D.Edwards et C.S.Li

Original diagnosis/description

Plant with smooth stems terminating in lax strobili. Vertically elongate sporangia, broadly elliptical in face viewand laterally flattened, taper into long, straight, decurrent stalks. Periphery marked by narrow border.

Etymology

After the Chinese province, Sichuan.

Plant fossil remain

macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood

Names associated with genus

Sichuania uskielloides D.Edwards et C.S.Li 2018

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