Siphonospermum simplex Rydin and Friis 2010

Gnetopsida - Gnetales

Full reference: C. Rydin and E. Friis. 2010. A new Early Cretaceous relative of Gnetales: Siphonospermum simplex gen. et sp. nov. from the Yixian Formation of Northeast China. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10(1):183

Belongs to Siphonospermum according to C. Rydin and E. Friis 2010

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 9880A & B (female plant with leaves and three reproductive units). Its type locality is Jianshangou (tentative), which is in a Barremian/Aptian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Yixian Formation of China.

Distribution: found only at Jianshangou (tentative)

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