THE ORIGIN OF LAND PLANTS: A PALEOBOTANICAL PERSPECTIVE
- 1 May 1982
- Vol. 31 (2) , 155-177
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1219982
Abstract
Summary: The discovery of numerous fossil plants in recent years, together with the application of new techniques directed at understanding the total biology of the organism, has resulted in the modification of some ideas pertaining to the origin of land plants. Several of these lines of evidence strongly suggest the presence of a diverse terrestrial flora significantly earlier than the Upper Silurian bench mark currently used for the first appearance of plants with vascular tissue.Keywords
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