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Lycopodiophyta

Index Lycopodiophyta

The Division Lycopodiophyta (sometimes called lycophyta or lycopods) is a tracheophyte subgroup of the Kingdom Plantae. [1]

70 relations: Aberlemnia, Adoketophyton, Alternation of generations, Alzheimer's disease, Baragwanathia, Carboniferous, Carboniferous rainforest collapse, Cathaysia, Class (biology), Coal, Cooksonia, Deposition (geology), Discalis, Distichophytum, Drepanophycales, Dukinfield Henry Scott, Equisetopsida, Euphyllophyte, Euramerica, Extinction, Fern, Fireworks, Fossil, Genus, Glasgow, Gumuia, Heterospory, Hicklingia, Huia (plant), Huperzia, Huperzia serrata, Huperzine A, Induan, Isoetales, Isoetes, Isoetopsida, Lepidodendrales, Lepidodendron, Lycopodiella inundata, Lycopodiopsida, Lycopodolica, Microphyll, Nothia, Ohio, Pennsylvanian (geology), Permian, Permian–Triassic extinction event, Plant, Pleuromeia, Protolepidodendrales, ..., Renalia, Rhyniophytina, Sandstone, Sartilmania, Sawdoniales, Scotland, Selaginella, Silurian, Spermatophyte, Spore, Sporophyll, Sporophyte, Stele (biology), Strobilus, Svalbard, Uskiella, Vascular plant, Yunia, Zosterophyllopsida, Zosterophyllum. Expand index (20 more) »

Aberlemnia

Aberlemnia is a genus of extinct vascular plants of the Early Devonian (around), which consisted of leafless stems with terminal spore-forming organs (sporangia).

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Adoketophyton

Adoketophyton is a genus of extinct vascular plants of the Early Devonian (Pragian stage, around). The plant was first described in 1977 based on fossil specimens from the Posongchong Formation, Wenshan district, Yunnan, China.

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Alternation of generations

Alternation of generations (also known as metagenesis) is the type of life cycle that occurs in those plants and algae in the Archaeplastida and the Heterokontophyta that have distinct sexual haploid and asexual diploid stages.

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Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease (AD), also referred to simply as Alzheimer's, is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and worsens over time.

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Baragwanathia

Baragwanathia is a genus of extinct plants of the division Lycopodiophyta of Late Silurian to Early Devonian age, fossils of which have been found in Australia, Canada, China and Czechia.

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Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, Mya.

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Carboniferous rainforest collapse

The Carboniferous rainforest collapse (CRC) was a minor extinction event that occurred around 305 million years ago in the Carboniferous period.

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Cathaysia

Cathaysia was a microcontinent or a group of terranes that rifted off Gondwana during the Late Paleozoic.

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Class (biology)

In biological classification, class (classis) is a taxonomic rank, as well as a taxonomic unit, a taxon, in that rank.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Cooksonia

Cooksonia is an extinct grouping of primitive land plants.

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Deposition (geology)

Deposition is the geological process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or land mass.

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Discalis

Discalis is a genus of extinct vascular plants of the Early Devonian (Pragian or Siegenian stage, around). The name is derived from the Greek δίσκος, referring to the disc-shaped sporangia (spore-forming organs).

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Distichophytum

Distichophytum is a genus of extinct vascular plants of the Late Silurian (Ludfordian) to Early Devonian (Emsian), around.

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Drepanophycales

Drepanophycales is an order of extinct plants of the Division Lycopodiophyta of ?Late Silurian to Late Devonian age (around), found in North America, China, Russia, Europe, and Australia.

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Dukinfield Henry Scott

Dr Dukinfield Henry Scott FRS HFRSE LLD (28 November 1854 – 29 January 1934) was a British botanist.

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Equisetopsida

Equisetopsida, or Sphenopsida, is a class of vascular plants with a fossil record going back to the Devonian.

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Euphyllophyte

The euphyllophytes are a clade of plants within the tracheophytes (the vascular plants).

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Euramerica

Euramerica (also known as Laurussia – not to be confused with Laurasia, – the Old Red Continent or the Old Red Sandstone Continent) was a minor supercontinent created in the Devonian as the result of a collision between the Laurentian, Baltica, and Avalonia cratons during the Caledonian orogeny, about 410 million years ago.

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Extinction

In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.

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Fern

A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.

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Fireworks

Fireworks are a class of low explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Gumuia

Gumuia is a genus of extinct vascular plants of the Early Devonian (Pragian or Siegenian, around). The genus was first described in 1989 based on fossil specimens from the Posongchong Formation, Wenshan district, Yunnan, China.

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Heterospory

Heterospory is the production of spores of two different sizes and sexes by the sporophytes of land plants.

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Hicklingia

Hicklingia is a genus of extinct plants of the Middle Devonian (around). Compressed specimens were first described in 1923 from the Old Red Sandstone of Scotland.

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Huia (plant)

Huia is a genus of extinct vascular plants of the Early Devonian (Pragian or Siegenian, around). The genus was first described in 1985 based on fossil specimens from the Posongchong Formation, Wenshan district, Yunnan, China.

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Huperzia

Huperzia is a genus of lycophyte plants, sometimes known as the firmosses or fir clubmosses.

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Huperzia serrata

Huperzia serrata, the toothed clubmoss, is a plant known as a firmoss which contains the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor huperzine A. It is widely distributed over-the-counter as a nootropic and dietary supplement and is used in traditional Chinese medicine.

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Huperzine A

Huperzine A is a naturally occurring sesquiterpene alkaloid compound found in the firmoss Huperzia serrata and in varying quantities in other Huperzia species, including H. elmeri, H. carinat, and H. aqualupian.

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Induan

The Induan is, in the geologic timescale, the first age of the Early Triassic epoch or the lowest stage of the Lower Triassic series.

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Isoetales

Isoetales, formerly also written Isoëtales, is an order of plants in the class Isoetopsida.

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Isoetes

Isoetes, commonly known as the quillworts, is a genus of plants in the class Isoetopsida and order Isoetales.

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Isoetopsida

The Isoetopsida is a class of Lycopodiophyta.

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Lepidodendrales

Lepidodendrales (from Gr. "scale tree") were primitive, vascular, arborescent (tree-like) plants related to the lycopsids (club mosses).

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Lepidodendron

Lepidodendron — also known as scale tree — is an extinct genus of primitive, vascular, arborescent (tree-like) plant related to the lycopsids (club mosses).

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Lycopodiella inundata

Lycopodiella inundata is a species of club moss known by the common names inundated club moss, marsh clubmoss and northern bog club moss.

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Lycopodiopsida

Lycopodiopsida is a class of herbaceous vascular plants known as the clubmosses and firmosses.

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Lycopodolica

Lycopodolica is a genus of extinct plants of the Late Silurian (around). Fossils were found in the Rashkov Beds in Podolia in modern Ukraine.

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Microphyll

In plant anatomy and evolution a microphyll is a type of plant leaf with one single, unbranched leaf vein.

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Nothia

Nothia was a genus of Early Devonian vascular plants whose fossils were found in the Rhynie chert in Scotland.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Pennsylvanian (geology)

The Pennsylvanian (also known as Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous) is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the younger of two subperiods (or upper of two subsystems) of the Carboniferous Period.

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Permian

The Permian is a geologic period and system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic period 251.902 Mya.

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Permian–Triassic extinction event

The Permian–Triassic (P–Tr or P–T) extinction event, colloquially known as the Great Dying, the End-Permian Extinction or the Great Permian Extinction, occurred about 252 Ma (million years) ago, forming the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geologic periods, as well as the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras.

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Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.

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Pleuromeia

Pleuromeia is an extinct genus of spore plants assigned to the Isoetopsida.

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Protolepidodendrales

The Protolepidodendrales are an extinct order of lycopsids that flourished from the Devonian to the lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) periods.

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Renalia

Renalia is a genus of extinct vascular plants from the Early Devonian (around). It was first described in 1976 from compressed fossils in the Battery Point Formation (Gaspé, Québec, Canada).

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Rhyniophytina

Rhyniophytina is a subdivision of extinct early vascular plants that are considered to be similar to the genus Rhynia, found in the Early Devonian (around). Sources vary in the name and rank used for this group, some treating it as the class Rhyniopsida, others as the division Rhyniophyta.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.

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Sartilmania

Sartilmania is a genus of extinct vascular plants of the Early Devonian (Emsian stage, around). Fossils were found in Sart Tilman (Liège, Belgium) (after which the genus was named).

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Sawdoniales

The Sawdoniales were among the first vascular plants in the fossil record.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Selaginella

Selaginella is the sole genus of primitive vascular plants in the family Selaginellaceae, the spikemosses or lesser clubmosses.

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Silurian

The Silurian is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya.

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Spermatophyte

The spermatophytes, also known as phanerogams or phenogamae, comprise those plants that produce seeds, hence the alternative name seed plants.

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Spore

In biology, a spore is a unit of sexual or asexual reproduction that may be adapted for dispersal and for survival, often for extended periods of time, in unfavourable conditions.

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Sporophyll

A sporophyll is a leaf that bears sporangia.

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Sporophyte

A sporophyte is the diploid multicellular stage in the life cycle of a plant or alga.

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Stele (biology)

In a vascular plant, the stele is the central part of the root or stem containing the tissues derived from the procambium.

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Strobilus

A strobilus (plural: strobili) is a structure present on many land plant species consisting of sporangia-bearing structures densely aggregated along a stem.

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Svalbard

Svalbard (prior to 1925 known by its Dutch name Spitsbergen, still the name of its largest island) is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.

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Uskiella

Uskiella is a genus of small fossil plants of Early Devonian age (around). The diagnostic characters are naked axes branching isotomously, terminating in ellipsoidal, vertically elongate flat sporangia which split longitudinally into two valves.

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Vascular plant

Vascular plants (from Latin vasculum: duct), also known as tracheophytes (from the equivalent Greek term trachea) and also higher plants, form a large group of plants (c. 308,312 accepted known species) that are defined as those land plants that have lignified tissues (the xylem) for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant.

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Yunia

Yunia is a genus of extinct vascular plants from the Early Devonian (Pragian or Siegenian stage, around). It was first described from the Posongchong Formation of Yunnan, China.

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Zosterophyllopsida

The zosterophylls were a group of extinct land plants that first appeared in the Silurian period.

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Zosterophyllum

Zosterophyllum was a genus of Silurian-Devonian vascular land plant with branching axes on which kidney-shaped sporangia were arranged in lateral positions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycopodiophyta

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