Definition of Lepidodendron. Meaning of Lepidodendron. Synonyms of Lepidodendron

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Definition of Lepidodendron

Lepidodendron
Lepidodendron Lep`i*do*den"dron (-dr[o^]n), n. [NL., fr. Gr. lepi`s -i`dos, a scale + de`ndron tree.] (Paleon.) A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks.

Meaning of Lepidodendron from wikipedia

- Lepidodendron is an extinct genus of primitive lycopodian vascular plants belonging the order Lepidodendrales. It is well preserved and common in the...
- which had been briefly deforested by flooding: Synchysidendron and Lepidodendron in mineral-soil areas and Lepidophloios in peat areas. Cordaites may...
- Carboniferous and Permian periods. It is related to the more famous Lepidodendron, and more distantly to modern quillworts. This genus is known in the...
- significantly. During the Carboniferous, tree-like plants (such as Lepidodendron, Sigillaria, and other extinct genus of the order Lepidodendrales) formed...
- system of aerating tissues. Two other parichnos channels can be found on Lepidodendron stem surfaces, though these do not occur in the Diaphorodendraceae....
- rooting structures of arborescent lycophytes such as Sigillaria and Lepidodendron under the order Lepidodendrales. The Paleozoic swamps had tree-like...
- trunks 30 meters high and up to 1.5 meters in diameter. These included Lepidodendron (with its fruit cone called Lepidostrobus), Halonia, Lepidophloios and...
- microphylls. Lycopodites, an early lycopod-like fossil External mold of Lepidodendron from the Upper Carboniferous of Ohio. Lycopod bark showing leaf scars...
- contains the fossilised stumps and the stigmarian system of eleven extinct Lepidodendron lycopsids, which are sometimes described as "giant club mosses" but...
- Lepidodendron, an extinct lycophyte tree...