What is Rhynia?
{{italic title}} {{automatic taxobox | taxon = Rhynia | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Early Devonian|Early Devonian|Early [[Devonian]]}} | image = Rhynia reconstruction.jpg | image_caption = Reconstruction of ''Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii'', redrawn after Kenrick & Crane (1997:101)<ref name=kenrick>{{Cite book |last1=Kenrick |first1=P.|first2=P.R. |last2=Crane |year=1997 |title=The origin and early diversification of land plants : a cladistic study |url=https://archive.org/details/originearlydiver0000kenr |publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press |publication-place=Washington & London |isbn= 978-1-56098-729-1 }} Fig. 4.8, p. 101.</ref> | image_upright = 0.7 | authority = [[Robert Kidston|Kidst.]] & [[William Henry Lang|W.H.Lang]] (1917) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = {{species list|R. gwynne-vaughanii|Kidst. & W.H.Lang (1917)}} }} [[File:Rhynia stem.jpg|thumb|right|A fossil stem of ''Rhynia'' is broken and shows the [[cell]]s.]] '''''Rhynia''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Devonian|Early Devonian]] [[fossil]] [[land plant]]s. Only one [[species]] is known, ''R. gwynne-vaughanii''. The fossils are the [[sporophyte]] generation<ref name=edwards1980>{{Cite journal |last=Edwards |first=D.S. |year=1980 |title=Evidence for the sporophytic status of the Lower Devonian plant ''Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii'' Kidston and Lang |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=29 |pages=177–188 |doi=10.1016/0034-6667(80)90057-3}}</ref> of a [[vascular plant]]. ''Rhynia'' had [[plant anatomy|anatomical]] features more advanced than those of the [[bryophyte]]s. ==Related pages== * ''[[Horneophyton]]'', a fossil non-vascular plant similar to ''Rhynia'' ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Vascular plants]] [[Category:Fossil plants]] [[Category:Extinct plants]] {{biology-stub}}