A new species of Leclercqia Banks, Bonamo et Grierson (Lycopsida) from the Middle Devonian of north Xinjiang, China, with a possible climbing habit

Xu, Honghe, Berry, Christopher Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9521-5618, Wang, Yi and Marshall, John E. A. 2011. A new species of Leclercqia Banks, Bonamo et Grierson (Lycopsida) from the Middle Devonian of north Xinjiang, China, with a possible climbing habit. International Journal of Plant Sciences 172 (6) , pp. 836-846. 10.1086/660195

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Abstract

A new herbaceous lycopsid species, Leclercqia uncinata Xu, Berry, Wang et Marshall, is established on the basis of compression fossils from the Middle Devonian of Xinjiang, NW China. The new species has slender axes and three-dimensional, seven-tipped leaves with a distally hooked central segment conforming to the original diagnosis of the genus, and it is relatively smaller than the type species, L. complexa from New York State. The sporangium contains the spore, which can be assigned to morphotaxon Acinoporites lindlariensis. In our preparation of compressions, iridopteridalean fertile appendages are found trapped between the distally hooked leaves of L. uncinata. A possible climbing habit of the new plant is discussed.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Earth and Environmental Sciences
Subjects:	Q Science > QE Geology Q Science > QK Botany
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Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
ISSN:	1058-5893
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	03 May 2023 15:07
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/8511

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