Pertica
Extinct genus of plants / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Pertica (disambiguation).
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Pertica | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Embryophytes |
Clade: | Polysporangiophytes |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Euphyllophytes |
Genus: | †Pertica Kasper & H.N.Andrews (1972)[1] |
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Pertica is a genus of extinct vascular plants of the Early to Middle Devonian (around 420 to 380 million years ago). It has been placed in the "trimerophytes", a strongly paraphyletic group of early members of the lineage leading to modern ferns and seed plants.[4]