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10.—Triradioxylon—a New Genus of Lower Carboniferous Petrified Stems and Petioles together with a Review of the Classification of Early Pterophytina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

P. D. W. Barnard  and
A. G. Long
P. D. W. Barnard
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, University of Reading
A. G. Long
Affiliation:
Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Synopsis

Triradioxylon gen. nov. is erected for petrified stems and petioles in which the primary xylem has a triradiate form and possesses protoxylem at the ends of the arms and in the central region. Secondary xylem is dense and composed of small tracheids having multiseriate bordered pits on all walls. Rays are narrow and high. The cortex has sclerotic nests and radial bands of fibres (sparganum structure).

In the type species T. primaevum sp. nov. the petioles are borne 5–6 cm apart in a phyllotactic spiral of ⅓ on a stem about 1 cm (or more) diameter. The petiole is swollen at its base (about 8 mm diameter) and very gradually tapers to about 2 mm in the rachis which has not been seen to dichotomise. The length of petiole up to the first pinna may exceed 10 cm. Pinnae arose alternately and themselves branched. The T-shaped petiolar bundle has two protoxylem groups at the end of each arm and the central protoxylem divided into three in the rachis.

Two detached rachises which cannot be assigned with certainty to Triradioxylon primaevum are placed in the genus Lyginorachis and named L. whitadderensis sp. nov. In these the T-shaped vascular bundle is slightly larger than that in the rachises of T. primaevum and the ends of the transverse arms are wider and may possess three protoxylem groups.

The rachises in both T.primaevum and L. whitadderensis bear alternate triarch pinna-traces but in L. whitadderensis a pair of sub-opposite monarch pinna-traces is also present.

Triradioxylon is classified along with Buteoxylon in the family Buteoxylonaceae placed tentatively as incertae sedis in the Pteridosperms although showing some affinity with Aneurophyton in the Progymnospermopsida.

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Research Article
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 69 , Issue 10 , 1975 , pp. 231 - 249
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1975

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