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Definition of Genus psilophyton
1. Noun. Type genus of the Psilophytaceae: genus of small wiry herbaceous Paleozoic plants with underground rhizomes and apical sporangia.
Group relationships: Family Psilophytaceae, Psilophytaceae
Member holonyms: Psilophyton
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Psilophyton
Literary usage of Genus psilophyton
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Palæozoic Plants in the Department of Geology and by Robert Kidston (1886)
"His two fossils do not appear to belong to the genus Psilophyton, ... belong to
Dawson's genus Psilophyton, and this view has already been adapted by Crépin ..."
2. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1872)
"The genus Psilophyton of Dawson (fig. 380) commences its existence in the Upper
Silurian Rocks; but it is characteristically Devonian, and is not known to ..."
3. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1872)
"The genus Psilophyton of Dawson (fig. 380) commences its existence in the Upper
Silurian Rocks ; but it is characteristically Devonian, and is not known to ..."
4. The Canadian Record of Science by Natural History Society of Montreal (1893)
"The genus Psilophyton, as described by Sir Wm. Dawson,1 represents again quite
a distinct group of plants. Referring to the description of the plants upon ..."
5. The Geological History of Plants by John William Dawson (1888)
"... described by Stur as Algae and Characeae,* are really land-plants, some of
them of the genus Psilophyton, I may say in this connection that specimens of ..."
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