Gary L. Smith Merrill
Field Museum of Natural History
6 Papers
16 Citations
Gary L. Smith Merrill is an academic researcher from Field Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Monophyly & Plagiochilaceae. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 6 publications.
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Papers
Phylogeny of the Polytrichales (Bryophyta) based on simultaneous analysis of molecular and morphological data.
TL;DR: Results lend support for recognition of Polytrichales as a monophyletic entity.
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On phylogeny of the Polytrichales
TL;DR: Phylogenetic analyses on Polytrichales were conducted using morphological characters as well as sequence data from the chloroplast genes rbcL and rps4 and the nuclear-encoded 18S rRNA gene to lend support for recognition of Poly Trichales as a distinct, monophyletic entity.
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Sporophytes and Gametophytes of Polytrichaceae from the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of Georgia, U. S. A.
TL;DR: These fossils, which represent the first unequivocal polytrichaceous sporophytes known from the fossil record, provide the first definitive evidence of modern families of mosses in the Cretaceous and demonstrate that mosses were already diverse by approximately 80 million years before present.
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Austral Hepaticae 47. Plagiochila microdictyon Mitt. (Plagiochilaceae), a misunderstood species from New Zealand
TL;DR: This species has the coarse, nodular leaf cell trigones of P. circinalis, but has straight, non-coiled androecia, the male bracts toothed at the apex and united with the bract above, and the surface of the stem narrowly exposed.
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