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Baragwanathia longifolia
Baragwanathia longifolia W.H. Lang, Cookson Philos. Trans., Ser. B, 224(517): 446. 23 Mar 1935
- Name
- Baragwanathia longifolia
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Baragwanathia
- Authors (Pub.)
- Lang W. H.
Cookson I. C.
- Publication
- On a flora, including vascular land plants, associated with Monograptus, in rocks of Silurian age, from Victoria, Australia [1935/3]
- Journal
- Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London
- Volume
- 224
- Issue
- 517
- Page number
- 446
- Year
- 1935
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Baragwanathia
- Stratigraphy
- Lower Devonian
- Location
- 19-Mile Quarry, Woods Point Road (former Yarra Track), central Victoria, Australia.
Data for Syntypus
- Repository
- Museum Victoria, Carlton , Australia
- Diagnosis
- Characters of genus–Leafy shoots with dichotomous branching. Stems from 4 mm–6.5 cm broad; mostly 1–2 cm. Leaves up to 4 cm long and 1 mm wide; appearing rather lax. Sporangia reniform, 2 mm tangentially and 2 mm high. Spores 50 μ. Suggestive indications of downwardly directed, (?) rhizomatous, slender, lateral branches, and of bud-like grouping of leaves laterally on the main stem.
