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Lepidodendrales (from the Gr**** for "scale tree") or
arborescent lycophytes are an
extinct order of primitive, vascular, heterosporous,
arborescent (tree-like)...
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plants belonging the
order Lepidodendrales. It is well
preserved and
common in the
fossil record. Like
other Lepidodendrales,
species of Lepidodendron...
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species are small,
during the Carboniferous,
extinct tree-like
forms (
Lepidodendrales)
formed huge
forests that
dominated the
landscape and
contributed to...
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arborescent lycophytes such as
Sigillaria and
Lepidodendron under the
order Lepidodendrales. The
Paleozoic swamps had tree-like
lycopsids that grew up to 30 m...
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plant species of the
Carboniferous period, and
included the tree-like
Lepidodendrales, some of
which grew over 40
metres (130 ft) in height,
although extant...
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single vascular trace.
Microphylls could grow to some size,
those of
Lepidodendrales reaching over a
meter in length, but
almost all just bear the one vascular...
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include the Rhyniopsida, Zosterophyllopsida, Trimerophytopsida, the
Lepidodendrales and the Progymnospermopsida.
Modern studies of the land
plants agree...
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Sphenophyllales (scrambling plants),
Lycopodiales (club mosses),
Lepidodendrales (scale trees),
Filicales (ferns),
Medullosales (informally included...
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Selaginellaceae and Isoetaceae,: 7 the
extinct Lepidodendrales, and ferns, such as the
Marsileaceae and
Salviniaceae are heterosporous...
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Sphenophyllales (scrambling plants),
Lycopodiales (Club mosses),
Lepidodendrales (arborescent
clubmosses or
scale trees),
Filicales (Ferns), Medullosales...