2011-04-01

Konioria

Konioria

Konioria
Scientific classification [ e ]
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Tracheophyta
Subdivision: Lycophytina
Class: Zosterophyllopsida
Genus: Konioria

Konioria was a genus of Silu-Devonian land plant with branching axes.

A cladogram published in 2004 by Crane et al. places Konioria in the core of a paraphyletic stem group of broadly defined "zosterophylls", basal to the lycopsids (living and extinct clubmosses and relatives).

lycophytes

Hicklingia




† basal groups (Adoketophyton, Discalis, Distichophytum (=Rebuchia), Gumuia, Huia, Zosterophyllum myretonianum, Z. lianoveranum, Z. fertile)



zosterophylls (Zosterophyllum divaricatum, Tarella, Oricilla, Gosslingia, Hsua, Thrinkophyton, Protobarinophyton, Barinophyton obscurum, B. citrulliforme, Sawdonia, Deheubarthia, Konioria, Anisophyton, Serrulacaulis, Crenaticaulis)




† basal groups (Nothia, Zosterophyllum deciduum)



lycopsids (extant and extinct members)





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