| 词条 | Dutoitea |
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| fossil_range = Early Devonian to Middle Devonian | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Dutoitea | authority = Hoeg, 1930 }} Dutoitia is a genus of Devonian rhyniophyte, named after the renowned South African geologist Alex du Toit. It is one of the earliest plants from Gondwana to colonize land. Its fossils were preserved in fine mudstones of the 400-million-year-old Bokkeveld[1] and Witteberg Groups of South Africa.[2] This erect, gracile plant is less than 10 cm high and very simple in structure. Its diminutive stems (0.1–3.0 mm in diameter), which are devoid of leaflike appendages, branch in two[3] and end in club- or cup-shaped sporangia, occasionally containing its reproductive spores.[4] Stomata (tiny pores) are present in the cuticle of their stems for gas exchange, and primitive cells inside the stems transported water from the roots to the aerial parts of the plant. Three species are recognized, D. pulchra Hoeg 1930 (from the Bloukrans River in the Knysna district, Ceres Subgroup, Lower Bokkeveld Group), D. alfreda Plumstead 1967 (Port Alfred, Weltevrede Subgroup, Lower Witteberg Group) and D. maraisia Plumstead 1967 (Howisons Poort, Witpoort Sandstone, Middle Witteberg Group). References1. ^{{cite book |last1=McCarthy |first1=T. |last2=Rubidge |first2=B. |year=2005 |title=The story of Earth & Life. A southern African perspective on a 4.6-billion-year journey |publisher=Struik Publishers |location=Cape Town}} {{paleobotany-stub}}2. ^{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=J.M. |last2=Anderson |first2=H.M. |year=1985 |title=Palaeoflora of southern Africa. Prodromus of South African megafloras: Devonian to Lower Cretaceous |publisher=A.A. Balkema |location=Rotterdam}} 3. ^{{cite journal |last1=Boyce, |first1=C.K. |year=2008 |title=How green was Cooksonia? The importance of size in understanding the early evolution of physiology in the vascular plant lineage |journal=Paleobiology |volume=34 |issue=179 |issn=0094-8373}} 4. ^{{cite journal |author=Gensel, P. |year=1980 |title=Devonian in situ spores: a survey and discussion |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=30 |pages=101–106 |doi=10.1016/0034-6667(80)90009-3 |issn=0034-6667}} 4 : Early Devonian plants|Early Devonian first appearances|Middle Devonian genus extinctions|Middle Devonian plants |
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