Nothia aphylla
Extinct species of spore-bearing plant / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about a fossil plant. For the fossil foraminiferan, see Nothia (foraminifera).
Nothia was a genus of Early Devonian vascular plants whose fossils were found in the Rhynie chert in Scotland. It had branching horizontal underground stems (rhizomes) and leafless aerial stems (axes) bearing lateral and terminal spore-forming organs (sporangia). Its aerial stems were covered with small 'bumps' (emergences), each bearing a stoma. It is one of the best described early land plants. Its classification remains uncertain, although it has been treated as a zosterophyll. There is one species, Nothia aphylla.[1]
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Nothia aphylla | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Lycophytes |
Plesion: | †Zosterophylls (?) |
Genus: | †Nothia A.G.Lyon ex El-Saadawy & Lacy[1] |
Species: | †N. aphylla |
Binomial name | |
†Nothia aphylla Lyon ex El-Saadawy & Lacy[1] | |
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