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Bennettitales

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n.1.an order of fossil gymnospermous plans of the Carboniferous.
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Noun1.Bennettitales - fossil gymnospermous plants of the Carboniferous
order Bennettitales
plant order - the order of plants
class Cycadopsida, Cycadophyta, Cycadophytina, Cycadopsida, subdivision Cycadophyta, subdivision Cycadophytina - palmlike gymnosperms: includes the surviving order Cycadales and several extinct orders; possibly not a natural group; in some systems considered a class (Cycadopsida) and in others a subdivision (Cycadophytina or Cycadophyta)
Bennettitaceae, family Bennettitaceae - a family of fossil gymnospermous plants of the Carboniferous
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Introduction The Cycadales (early Permian to Present) and the Bennettitales (late Permian to late Cretaceous) are collectively known as the "cycadophytes," as they show strikingly similar vegetative morphology (e.
Systematics, ontogeny, and phylogenetic implications of exceptional ... by Dower, Beatrice L.; Bateman, Richard M.; Stevenson, Dennis Wm. / The Botanical Review
These observations, combined with the facts that the cycads have a fossil record extending back to the Early Permian (Gao & Thomas, 1989), that the Curculionoidae are primitive beetles with a fossil record beginning in the Carboniferous, and that these weevils are also associated with Mesozoic Bennettitales (Crepet, 1979), suggest that insect pollination was well developed before the arrival of the angiosperms.
Cycads of Colombia by Stevenson, Dennis Wm. / The Botanical Review
gnetopsids, Bennettitales, Pentoxylon) are not closely related and do not have flowers or what can reasonably be interpreted as flower homologues.
The PhyloCode is fatally flawed, and the "Linnaean" System can easily ... by Nixon, Kevin C.; Carpenter, James M.; Stevenson, Dennis W. / The Botanical Review
 
 
 
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