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Lepidodendron, from Ancient Greek λεπίς (lepís), meaning "scale", and δένδρον (déndron), meaning "tree", is an extinct genus of primitive lycopodian vascular

Carboniferous and Permian periods. It is related to the more famous Lepidodendron, and more distantly to modern quillworts. This genus is known in the

which had been briefly deforested by flooding: Synchysidendron and Lepidodendron in mineral-soil areas and Lepidophloios in peat areas. Cordaites may

significantly. During the Carboniferous, tree-like plants (such as Lepidodendron, Sigillaria, and other extinct genera of the order Lepidodendrales)

trunks 30 meters high and up to 1.5 meters in diameter. These included Lepidodendron (with its fruit cone called Lepidostrobus), Halonia, Lepidophloios and

rooting structures of arborescent lycophytes such as Sigillaria and Lepidodendron under the order Lepidodendrales. The Paleozoic swamps had tree-like

Bjuvia spread to inhabit wetlands previously occupied by plants like Lepidodendron and Sigillaria. Wachtler, Michael; van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, Johanna

contains the fossilised stumps and the stigmarian system of eleven extinct Lepidodendron lycopsids, which are sometimes described as "giant club mosses" but

system of aerating tissues. Two other parichnos channels can be found on Lepidodendron stem surfaces, though these do not occur in the Diaphorodendraceae.

microphylls. Lycopodites, an early lycopod-like fossil External mold of Lepidodendron from the Upper Carboniferous of Ohio. Lycopod bark showing leaf scars