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Archaeamphora longicervia H. Q. Li was described as an herbaceous, Sarraceniaceae-like pitcher plant from the mid Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, northeastern China. Here, a re-investigation of A. longicervia specimens from the Yixian Formation provides new insights into its identity and the morphology of pitcher plants claimed by Li. We demonstrate that putative pitcher...

In the context of climate change in recent years, fate woody plant seed has an important impact on forest regeneration. Seed mass is reproductive strategy plants. There are huge differences between gymnosperms (mainly conifers) and angiosperms (flowering plants) terms reproduction hydraulic strategies; however, little known about changes along aridity gradients taxonomical groups such as angios...

To study the evolutionary relationships among the four living gymnosperm orders and the interfamilial relationships in each order, a set of 65 nuclear 18S rRNA sequences from ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms was analyzed using the neighbor-joining and maximum-parsimony methods. With Selaginella as the outgroup, the analysis strongly indicates that the seed plants form a monophyletic group wi...

Seedling planting plays a key role in active forest restoration and regeneration of managed stands. Plant attributes at outplanting can determine tree seedling survival consequently early success plantations. Although many studies show that large seedlings the same age within species have higher than small ones, others report opposite. This may be due to differences environmental conditions sit...