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THE ORIGIN OF LAND PLANTS: A PALEOBOTANICAL PERSPECTIVE
Author(s) -
Taylor Thomas N.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1219982
Subject(s) - flora (microbiology) , biology , perspective (graphical) , ecology , organism , terrestrial plant , vascular plant , geography , botany , paleontology , computer science , artificial intelligence , bacteria , species richness
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.