An earliest record of vascular plants is from Devonian of Canada (Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec). Although the compressions were fragmentary, a reconstruction revealed slender axes arising from a subterranean rhizome system (Fig. 7.3A). The rhizome lacked roots but had rhizoids. The aerial axes were dichotomously branched with scale-like appendages and terminated into sporangia. Because of its […]
Diagram of Psilophytales | Pteridophytes | Botany
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