Rooted in Time

Rooted in Time

Living Fossils and Other Tenacious Plants

Gee, Carole T.; Redford, Channing

Johns Hopkins University Press

11/2024

280

Dura

9781421449388

15 a 20 dias

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Preface: The Making of a Plant Lover
Part I
1. Living Fossils: Morphological Look-Alikes, Tenacious Survivors, and Relict Members of Ancient Lineages
2. Cyanobacteria and Stromatolites: The Toughest and Longest-Lived Green Survivors
Part II
3. Standing Tall
4. Clubmosses & Co.
5. The Horsetail or Scouring Rush Equisetum
6. Ferns and Tree Ferns
Part III
7. Bearing Seeds and Woody Cones
8. Cycads
9. The Maidenhair Tree Ginkgo
10. Araucarias, Kauris, and the Wollemi Pine
11. Podocarps
12. The Dawn Redwood Metasequoia
13. The Japanese Umbrella Pine Sciadopitys
Part IV
14. Coming Into Flower
15. The Waterlilies Nymphaea and Nuphar
16. The Sacred Lotus Nelumbo
17. The Mangrove Palm Nypa
Index
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Fossil plants, paleobotany, botany, paleontology, history of life, Mesozoic plants, Mesozoicflora, Equisetum, Ginkgo, cycads