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Introduction: the essential role of the Pteridophyta in the study of land plants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

P. R. Bell
P. R. Bell
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Department of Botany and Microbiology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, U.K.
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Arguments based on their technical advantages, undoubted antiquity and lack of evolutionary extravagances are advanced for promoting the study of the Pteridophyta. Sound interpretations of fundamental aspects of the land plants, together with useful knowledge, are likely to follow, and grievous errors arising from too great a concentration on the flowering plants can be avoided.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 86: The Biology of Pteridophytes , 1985 , pp. 1 - 4
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1985

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