Neocalamites is an extinct genus of equisetalean plant. Neocalamites thrived during the Permian and Triassic, and occurs worldwide.
Neocalamites is an extinct genus of equisetalean plant. Neocalamites thrived during the Permian and Triassic, and occurs worldwide.
==Description== left|thumb|Illustration of Neocalamites stems growing in an estuarine environment, with attached hybodont egg cases ([[Palaeoxyris) and hybodonts in the background ]]According to Elgorriaga et al. 2018, characteristics of Neocalamites include: "(1) aerial stems with continuous ribs across nodes, (2) whorls of unfused leaves as in archaeocalamitacean plants, (3) compact strobili consisting of successive whorls of peltate sporangiophores, and (4) bearing six or more sporangia per sporangiophore as in equisetacean strobili." The leaves are similar to those of Annularia while the stems closely resemble those of Calamites. It is disputed as to whether members of the genus have secondary xylem. Neocalamites is suggested to have had a herbaceous to shrub like habit. It is suggested to have grown in wet habitats, such as on the banks of rivers.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).