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AXSMITH, BRIAN J¹, RUDOLPH SERBET², MICHAEL KRINGS², THOMAS N TAYLOR², and EDITH L TAYLOR². ¹Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama; ²Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence. - New intepretations of the enigmatic Paleozoic plants Spermopteris and Phasmatocycas. Abstract. Botany 2001, August 12 - 16, 2001; Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), University of California, Berkeley: Introduction to the Cycads, Legacy of the Mesozoic. See also: Cycads: Fossil Record.

! Robert Buckley Trabuco Canyon, California, (Illustrations by Douglas Henderson, John Sibbick and Mark Hallet), The Palm & Cycad Societies of Florida (PACSOF): The Fossil Cycads.

Robert Buckley Trabuco Canyon, California: Inducing adventitious root growth in cycad leaves. Reprinted with permission from The Cycad Newsletter, Issue 1, 1999. This article is a 388 Kb PDF document and must be viewed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in.

Bane Cheek, Polk Community College, Winter Haven, Florida: An Introduction to Cycad Reproduction.

Bane Cheek, Polk Community College, Winter Haven, Florida: Cycads.

Lynne M. Clos, Fossil News: Cycads: Living Fossils. See also: Hunting For Fossil Cycads in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.

The Cycad Society. A non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of cycads through education and scientific research. Read examples of the interesting articles that have appeared in The Cycad Newsletter and see the topics in the most recent issue of The Cycad Newsletter. Visit The Cycad Photo Gallery.

Jose Manuel Sanchez de Lorenzo Cáceres, Palm & Cycad Societies of Florida, Inc.: The Cycads: Fossils of the Past.

Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main, Das Tor zur Welt der Pflanzen: Palmfarne - weder Palmen noch Farne (in German).

David R. Greenwood, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne: Cycad Articles, Australia's Cycad Fossils and the Antiquity of the Daintree rainforest.

Ken Hill, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney: The Cycad Pages. Botanical information and links, including identification and classification of cycads, ecology and conservation, cycad evolution and the fossil record, geography and distribution, as well as horticultural and general information. Excellent!

John Hendricks, Ken Hill, Roy Osborne and Dennis Stevenson, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney: The World List of Cycads. The lists as published gave the valid names of all known extant cycads at the times of final editing. Compilation was alphabetical by family. The online version has been expanded to include all known synonyms and details of typification of all validly published names.

! Palaeobotanical Research Group, Münster, Westfälische Wilhelms University, Münster, Germany. History of Palaeozoic Forests, CYCADS. Link list page with rankings and brief explanations. Images of modern cycads.

netfirms: The Cool Tropics, Research Cycads. A directory.

Dan Nickrent and Karen Renzaglia, Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale: Land Plants Online, Cycads - Phylum Cycadophyta.

The Palm and Cycad Societies of Australia (PACSOA): PACSOA is a group of affiliated, semi-autonomous, regional Palm and/or Cycad Societies, based in Brisbane, Queensland.

The Palm & Cycad Societies of Florida (PACSOF): Virtual Cycad Encyclopedia. Worth to visit: Chapter 4: Cycad evolution.

Kathleen B. Pigg, Department of Plant Biology, Arizona State University: Plant Fossils and Evolution. Go to: Laboratory. The Cycads, Cycadeoids (Bennettitales) and Ginkgophytes.

Vincent L. Santucci, National Park Service, Kemmerer, WY, and Marikka Hughes, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Paleobotany Division, New Haven: Fossil Cycad National Monument: A Case of Paleontological Resource Mismanagement.

STOCKEY, RUTH¹ and GAR W. ROTHWELL². ¹Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton: ²Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio: Permineralized cycad seeds from the Jurassic of British Columbia, Canada. Abstract. Botany 2001, August 12 - 16, 2001; Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Ralph E. Taggart, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology/Department of Geological Sciences at Michigan State University, East Lansing: BOT335 Lecture Schedule. Cycadophytes, the True Cycads;

YourOnlineLink.com: Flora and Fauna of The World :Taxonomy Map :Plantae :Cycadophyta.