Fossil evidence of tylosis formation in Late Devonian plants

Anne-Laure Decombeix1, Carla J Harper2,3, Cyrille Prestianni4,5

  • 1AMAP, Université Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAe, IRD, Montpellier, France. anne-laure.decombeix@cnrs.fr.

Nature Plants
|April 20, 2023
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