factograf
EN
Sign in

Extinct genus of Devonian plants

Fusitheca

Key facts

instance oftaxon
taxon nameFusitheca
taxon rankgenus

Fusitheca was a genus of land plant with branching axes. It is known from charcoalified Early Devonian deposits, its type locality being the Brown Clee Hill lagerstätten. Its spores form smooth-walled, unfused, naked dyads. Its axis comprises length-parallel filaments, and their dichotomies are T-shaped, with the branches bending to continue upwards.

Read next

In 2 languages

Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source article