Steganotheca D.Edwards

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000857

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:857

Rank: genus

Reference: Edwards, D. (1970): Fertile Rhyniophytina from the Lower Devonian of Britain. – Palaeontology 13(3): 84–87., link

Page of description: 452

Type

Steganotheca striata D.Edwards

Original diagnosis/description

Naked dichotomously branching axes with erect terminal sporangia. Sporangia longer than wide with tapering bases and truncated apices; apices formed by terminal lens-shaped structure of coaly material; sporangia with almost parallel sides.

Plant fossil remain

macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood

Names associated with genus

Steganotheca striata D.Edwards 1970

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