%0 Journal Article
%A Xin Wang
%A Shuying Duan and Jinzhong Cui
%T Several Species of Schizolepis and Their Significance on the Evolution of Conifers (1)
%D 1997
%J Taiwania
%V 42
%N 2
%P 73-85
%U https://taiwania.ntu.edu.tw/abstract/85
%X Four species of Schizolepis including three new species from west Liaoning province and Inner-Mongolia have been described. As the seeds with wings were found in cones for the first time, their relationship to Pinaceae was closer than it had been thought. With the characters observed on fossil as well as evidence from palaeobotanical works and teratology, the authors have discussed the propinquity and possible evolutionary relationship with other families of Pinaceae as well as other groups of conifers and thought: 1) there was a series starting from Pseudovoltzia, through Tricanolepis and Schizolepis, leading into extant conifers; 2) the different parts of scale and bract have been undergoing a coalescence; 3) seed wings have undergone a process from non-existence, advent to fully development; and 4) more attention should be paid to the Lycopsida for the consideration of ancestral conifers.
%M doi:10.6165/tai.1997.42.73