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| Reconstruction of Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii, redrawn after Kenrick & Crane (1997:101)[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Subdivision: | †Rhyniophytina |
| Class: | †Rhyniopsida |
| Order: | †Rhyniales |
| Family: | †Rhyniaceae |
| Genus: | †Rhynia Kidst. & W.H.Lang (1917) |
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| R. gwynne-vaughanii Kidst. & W.H.Lang (1917)
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Rhynia is a single-species genus of Devonian vascular plants. Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii was the sporophyte[2] generation of a vascular, axial, free-sporing diplohaplontic embryophytic land plant of the Early Devonian that had anatomical features more advanced than those of the bryophytes. Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii was a member of a sister group to all other eutracheophytes, including modern vascular plants.
- ^ Kenrick, P.; Crane, P.R. (1997). The origin and early diversification of land plants : a cladistic study. Washington & London: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 978-1-56098-729-1. Fig. 4.8, p. 101.
- ^ Edwards, D.S. (1980). "Evidence for the sporophytic status of the Lower Devonian plant Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii Kidston and Lang". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 29: 177–188. Bibcode:1980RPaPa..29..177E. doi:10.1016/0034-6667(80)90057-3.