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Microphylls and megaphylls
Rabu, 2026-04-29 07:25:03

anatomy and evolution a microphyll (or lycophyll) is a type of plant leaf with one single, unbranched leaf vein. Plants with microphyll leaves occur early...

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Leaf size
Minggu, 2025-10-05 18:04:13

plants can be described using the terms megaphyll, macrophyll, mesophyll, microphyll, nanophyll and leptophyll (in descending order) in a classification devised...

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Lycophyte
Minggu, 2026-05-24 20:17:10

genus Leclercqia had fully vascularized microphylls. These are considered to be stages in the evolution of microphylls. Lycopodites, an early lycopod-like...

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Rainforest
Selasa, 2026-04-28 23:03:12

understory can be split up into different sub-types which include low microphyll vine forest, Araucarian vine forest, Semi-evergreen vine thicket, and...

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Leaf
Jumat, 2026-06-05 01:37:09

origins, the leaves are simple (with only a single vein) and are known as microphylls. Some leaves, such as bulb scales, are not above ground. In many aquatic...

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Lycopodiopsida
Kamis, 2026-03-26 00:17:41

They have dichotomously branching stems bearing simple leaves called microphylls and reproduce by means of spores borne in sporangia on the sides of the...

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Cañón de Santa Elena Flora and Fauna Protection Area
Minggu, 2026-02-22 10:10:43

Diverse species of the former category are found among scrub stands, microphyll desert, rosetophylous scrub, pasture, oak forest and riparian zones. Birds...

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Fern
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 22:31:18

Ferns have leaves called megaphylls that are more complex than the microphylls of clubmosses. Most ferns are leptosporangiate ferns that produce coiled...

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Selaginella
Senin, 2026-04-06 11:39:51

Unusual for the lycopods, which nearly always have microphylls with a single unbranched vein, the microphylls of a few Selaginella species contain a branched...

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Equisetidae
Kamis, 2026-05-21 21:56:41

leaves. In the only extant genus Equisetum, these are small leaves (microphylls) with a singular vascular trace, fused into a sheath at each stem node...

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Memecylon pauciflorum
Kamis, 2026-05-21 20:47:55

semi-deciduous, notophyll to microphyll vine forests/ thickets on beach ridges and coastal dunes, occasionally A. cunninghamii microphyll vine forests on dunes...

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Vascular plant
Kamis, 2026-05-14 03:44:04

Eutracheophytes †Adoketophyton †?Barinophytopsida †Zosterophyllopsida Microphylls †Hicklingia †Gumuia †Nothia Lycopodiopsida †Zosterophyllum deciduum †Yunia...

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Phylum
Senin, 2026-06-08 06:29:32

vessels approx. 70 Lycophyta Lycopodium-like plants Wolf plants Clubmosses Microphyll leaves, vascular system 1,290 extant Angiospermae Seed container Flowering...

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Embryophyte
Senin, 2026-06-01 13:28:15

1% of living vascular plants. They have small leaves, often called 'microphylls' or 'lycophylls', which are borne all along the stems in the clubmosses...

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Sporophyll
Selasa, 2025-10-28 05:43:43

bears sporangia. Both microphylls and megaphylls can be sporophylls. In heterosporous plants, sporophylls (whether they are microphylls or megaphylls) bear...

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Glossary of botanical terms
Senin, 2026-05-18 08:06:12

specific epithet. trophophyll A vegetative, nutrient-producing leaf or microphyll whose primary function is photosynthesis. It is not specialized or modified...

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Equisetum
Rabu, 2026-05-27 05:54:38

which is the defining feature of microphylls. However, it has recently been recognised that horsetail microphylls are probably not ancestral as in lycophytes...

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Lycopodium clavatum
Minggu, 2025-11-09 06:05:04

are much branched, and densely clothed with small, spirally arranged microphyll leaves. The leaves are 3–5 mm long and 0.7–1 mm broad, tapered to a fine...

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Equisetum arvense
Minggu, 2026-05-24 23:32:58

horizontal circles of about 20 sporangiophores. Lower on the stem are two sheaths of merged microphylls. The stem has many strong lengthwise ridges....

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Mount Bartle Frere
Minggu, 2026-05-24 09:33:09

diverse smaller leaved notophyll type. At elevations above 1000 m, simple microphyll vine fern forest is found with species such as the purple kauri pine (Agathis...

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Drepanophycales
Minggu, 2025-09-14 07:37:09

primitive annular or helical type (so-called G-type). Stem clothed in either microphylls (leaves with a single vascular thread or 'vein'), or with leaf-like enations...

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Evolutionary history of plants
Senin, 2026-05-18 20:57:18

club mosses. Lycopods bear distinctive microphylls, defined as leaves with a single vascular trace. Microphylls could grow to some size, those of Lepidodendrales...

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Lycopodium
Kamis, 2026-03-12 14:57:46

intervals. The leaves contain a single, unbranched vascular strand, and are microphylls by definition. They are usually arranged in spirals. The kidney-shaped...

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Backhousia oligantha
Selasa, 2026-05-12 02:35:28

Reserve 1. This species occurs in Araucarian (Araucaria cunninghamii) microphyll vine-forest. This species associated with Backhousia oligantha include...

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Selaginella moellendorffii
Selasa, 2026-01-13 03:22:59

of unusual and/or "primitive" features, such as rudimentary leaves (microphylls), ubiquitous dichotomous branching, heterospory, and the ligule. As the...

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Pteridophyte
Senin, 2026-05-18 07:26:55

adventitious. The stem is either underground or aerial. The leaves may be microphylls or megaphylls. Their other common characteristics include vascular plant...

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Lycopodiaceae
Kamis, 2026-03-12 15:13:58

name derives. Members of the family share the common feature of having a microphyll, which is a "small leaf with a single vein, and not associated with a...

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Rainforests and vine thickets
Minggu, 2026-04-12 21:15:47

notophyll – 7.5 - 12.5 cm long (2 – 45 cm2), e.g. warm temperate rainforest microphyll – less than 7.5 cm long (2.5 – 20 cm2), e.g. cloud forest. are high in...

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Dendrolycopodium obscurum
Minggu, 2025-08-17 19:12:16

The leaves are microphylls, each containing only a single vein and measuring less than 1 cm (0.4 inches) long. Two types of microphylls are formed, green...

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Camptochaete monolina
Rabu, 2026-01-21 10:26:47

extends to 60% of the leaf length. It occurs as an lithophyte in simple microphyll vine-forest on Mount Bellenden Ker, Wooroonooran National Park, Far North...

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Croton mamillatus
Selasa, 2026-05-12 02:40:27

fruits from September to June. It is a dry rainforest plant growing in microphyll and notophyll vineforest. It grows on red soils derived from chert. It...

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Ligule
Senin, 2025-10-06 11:42:49

elongated tongue of the corolla of a ray flower or ligulate flower. The microphylls of Lycopodiophyta of the heterosporous families Selaginellaceae (spikemosses...

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Isoetes
Kamis, 2026-03-12 15:11:29

within the outermost microphylls (single-veined leaves) of the plant while the microsporangia are found in the innermost microphylls. This pattern of development...

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Ceiba chodatii
Rabu, 2025-03-19 22:20:26

Ceiba, and Bulnesia. The ground is clad in thorny plants, some with microphylls and others with no leaves and cacti such as Cereus and Stetsonia. Some...

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Agathis atropurpurea
Jumat, 2026-05-08 11:29:15

Tropics of Queensland, specifically to the cloudy, high elevation, simple microphyll vine-fern forests that occur on the granite massifs north and south of...

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Proserpine rock-wallaby
Kamis, 2026-04-09 22:00:10

rock-wallaby requires rocky outcrops, rock piles, and cliffs within a sloping microphyll/notophyll semi-deciduous dry vine forest in order to survive as these...

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Polysporangiophyte
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 05:40:01

than 1% of the species of living vascular plants, have small leaves (microphylls or more specifically lycophylls), which develop from an intercalary meristem...

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Strobilus
Kamis, 2026-02-12 22:31:16

produce strobili. In all cases, the lateral organs of the strobilus are microphylls, bearing sporangia. In other lycophytes, ordinary foliage leaves can...

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Asteroxylon
Kamis, 2026-03-12 18:37:53

Drepanophycus and Baragwanathia are therefore considered to be true microphylls or, alternatively, small leaves. The type species is Asteroxylon mackiei...

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Tully Training Area
Kamis, 2025-11-20 16:03:55

cloudy wet highlands on granite peaks (generally above 800 m) Simple Microphyll Vine-fern Forest (Type 9) is found (also often with Agathis microstachya)...

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Poikilohydry
Selasa, 2025-10-28 15:52:22

Lebkeucher and Eickmeier in 1991, occurs to prevent photoinhibition in the microphylls in response to UV radiation and gradual leaf uncurling when rehydrated...

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Drepanophycaceae
Kamis, 2025-05-29 18:41:27

(thorn-shaped) microphylls arranged spirally or randomly on stem sporangia borne on upper surface of microphylls Baragwanathia Lang & Cookson microphylls long,...

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Mount Pinbarren National Park
Rabu, 2026-02-25 11:22:38

Pinbarren. It was established to preserve significant hoop pine complex microphyll vine forest and habitat for the endangered Coxen’s fig parrot. Access...

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Baragwanathia
Kamis, 2026-03-12 14:50:15

helical type (so-called G-type). Leaves were unbranched strap-shaped microphylls (4 cm long in B. longifolia) with a single prominent vascular thread...

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Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 17:22:36

forest, and littoral (or beach scrub) rainforest. Araucarian notophyll and microphyll vine forests were once the most extensive rainforest community in southern...

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Nothorites
Minggu, 2025-12-21 12:15:54

and the other on Mount Bartle Frere south of Cairns. The habitat is microphyll vine forest on granitic soils, at altitudes above 1,000 m (3,300 ft)....

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Daarrba National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land)
Rabu, 2026-02-25 11:18:57

notophyll/microphyll vine forest growing on structured red earth soils derived from basalt in a shallow valley. Semi-deciduous notophyll/microphyll vine forest...

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Hiwegi Formation
Jumat, 2026-05-08 08:05:40

grasses. Most plant morphotypes from the R3 locality are untoothed and microphyll, resulting in an estimated mean annual temperature of 23.5 ± 4.9 °C (74...

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Cuenca Alimentadora del Distrito Nacional de Riego 026 Bajo Río San Juan
Senin, 2026-02-23 00:50:07

and dryer, and home to chaparral, submontane matorral, desert matorral (microphyll and rosetophyll), secondary scrubland, and agriculture. The area was designated...

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Petrophora chlorosata
Rabu, 2026-03-25 05:51:06

yellow, later orange. It is covered with 24 to 25 longitudinal ribs. The microphyll rosette is nine to ten-leaf. Larva The caterpillars have a brownish or...

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Plant evolutionary developmental biology
Rabu, 2026-05-06 23:57:37

plant. Based on their structure, they are classified into two types - microphylls, that lack complex venation patterns and megaphylls, that are large and...

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Phlegmariurus phlegmaria
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 11:49:11

stature. They can be identified by having petiolate sterile microphylls and small fertile microphylls on thin branching strobili. Individuals of Phlegmariurus...

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Drepanophycus
Senin, 2026-04-20 10:31:11

unbranched thorn-shaped (i.e. with a wide base, tapering to a blunt point) microphylls several mm long with a single prominent vascular thread, arranged spirally...

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Dendrolycopodium hickeyi
Sabtu, 2024-12-07 09:47:41

club-mosses to be found in clusters. The upright sporophytes have small, green microphylls (leaves) extending from the ground to the tips of their branches (branches...

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Fontainea venosa
Senin, 2025-10-20 03:42:50

1984. F. venosa occurs mainly in Notophyll vine forests or Araucaria microphyll vine forests and vine thickets, up to 380 meters in altitude that capture...

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Battery Point Formation
Rabu, 2025-12-03 20:56:34

(March 1975). "A New Species of Sawdonia with Notes on the Origin of Microphylls and Lateral Sporangia". Botanical Gazette. 136 (1): 50–62. doi:10.1086/336782...

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List of pteridophytes of Sri Lanka
Selasa, 2024-04-09 18:07:28

others are heterosporous. They differ from ferns due to presence of microphylls, which are the leaves that have only a single vascular trace. There are...

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Sawdonia
Senin, 2026-04-06 02:28:27

William H (1975). "A New Species of Sawdonia with Notes on the Origin of Microphylls and Lateral Sporangia". Botanical Gazette. 136 (1): 50–62. doi:10.1086/336782...

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