International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 166, No. 1 (January 2005), pp. 157-183 (27 pages) A comparative study of leaf morphology and venation patterns of extant Araceae has been undertaken in ...

Plant fossils dating back 55 to 40 million years ago, during the Eocene epoch reveal details about the warmer and wetter climate. These conditions meant there were palms at the North and South Pole ...

South American floras are famous for their high species diversity. However, because of the undersampled South American plant-fossil record, remarkably little is known about how long this floral ...

It lurked in wait for unsuspecting prey on the swampy Baltic coastline 35–47 million years ago. Now the first fossilised specimens of a carnivorous plant are helping scientists probe the organism’s ...

A fossilised leafy branch from the early Eocene in Patagonia described in 1941 is still often cited as the oldest bamboo fossil and the main fossil evidence for a Gondwanan origin of bamboos. However, ...

Newly recognized fossil infructescences and leaves of the Trochodendraceae are described from the Early/Middle Eocene McAbee and One Mile Creek sites of British Columbia, Canada, and Republic, eastern ...

As leaves go, this one certainly does not look like a keeper. The alder leaf is full of holes caused by a marauding insect and is not the sort you would collect and press between the pages of a book, ...