Cordaitales

an extinct order of carboniferous GYMNOSPERMS having the form of tall, slender trees at the top of which was a crown of branches bearing large, elongated leaves.

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References in periodicals archive

Cordaiteans (Cordaitales), Vojnovskeans (Vojnovskyales), Gymnosperm seeds of an undetermined position (Semina Gymnospermarum incertae sedis).

Floras en las capas rojas de la cuenca permica de Lodeve (Sur de Francia)

Diversity among Paleozoic Cordaitales: The vascular architecture of Mesoxylon birame Baxter.

Anatomically-preserved cordaitalean trees from Lower Pennsylvanian (Langsettian) dryland alluvial-plain deposits at Joggins, Nova Scotia

The male reproductive organs of the Cordaitales consisted of elongated clusters of strobili, each strobilus composed of spirally disposed sterile scales and fertile scales, or microsporophylls.

The telome theory

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