Lepidodendrales (from Gr. `scale tree`) were primitive, vascular, arborescent (tree-like) plants related to the lycopsids (club mosses). They thrived during the Carboniferous period, and some reached heights of over 30 meters, with trunks often more than one meter in diameter. Sometimes called `giant club mosses`, they are in fact more closely...
(from the article `Lycophyta`) ...herbaceous (rarely woody), homosporous lycophytes; about 8 genera, including Baragwanathia and Protolepidodendron.†Order LepidodendralesExtinct ...
[n] - fossil arborescent plants arising during the Lower Devonian and conspicuous throughout the Carboniferous
order Lepidodendrales noun fossil arborescent plants arising during the early Devonian and conspicuous throughout the Carboniferous