Barthelia
authorship:
Rothwell & Mapes, 2001
rank:
genus
type species: Barthelia furcata Rothwell & Mapes, 2001
Barthelia
Unranked:
Barthelia
Barthelia gen. nov.
nomenclatorial act:
protologue/first publication
Page:
639
diagnosis:
Irregularly branched plants with helically arranged leaves, bracts, and sporophylls; smaller leaves simple, larger leaves forked. Leaf cushions absent; bud scales absent; Endarch eustele with dense wood; leaves with two adaxial stomatiferous bands flanking inflated midrib; marginal and surficial trichomes present. Stomata longitudinally oriented, solitary or arranged in longitudinal rows; stomatal complexes with ring of angular papillate subsidiary cells, polar subsidiary cells elongated. Microsporangiate sporophylls with forked tip; prepollen monolete.
systematic position:
Spermatopsida, order indet., Bartheliaceae
typeseries:
Barthelia furcata Rothwell & Mapes, 2001
Barthelia furcata gen. nov. et sp. nov., with a review of paleozoique coniferiphytes and a discussion of coniferophyte systematics
, “Barthelia furcata gen. nov. et sp. nov., with a review of paleozoique coniferiphytes and a discussion of coniferophyte systematics”, International Journal of Plant Sciences, vol. 162, no. 3, pp. 637-667, 2001.
