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Name and give the features of a (paraphyletic) fossil group that diverged along the immediate lineage to the lycophytes.
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Lycophytes are a group of vascular plants that are part of the broader clade known as the tracheophytes. To find a paraphyletic fossil group that diverged along the lineage leading to lycophytes, we need to look at early vascular plants. Show more…
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