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Asteroxylon mackiei was first described from the Rhynie Chert by Kidston and Lang1, but the nature of its reproductive region has remained uncertain, since the peculiar leafless axes and small pear-shaped sporangia, which they provisionally assigned to the plant, have never been found connected to its leafy stems.
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LYON, A. Probable Fertile Region of Asteroxylon mackiei K. and L.. Nature 203, 1082–1083 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2031082b0
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