Walkomiella

Taxobox
regnum=Plantae
divisio = Pinophyta
classis = Pinopsida
ordo = ?
familia = ?
genus = Walkomiella
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "W. indica" [cite journal|journal = Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Science, Section A
volume = 8
pages=40–41
title = The seeds of "Walkomiella indica"—a conifer from the lower Gondwanas of India
url=http://www.ias.ac.in/j_archive/currsci/21/2/40-41/viewpage.html] (Surange & Singh 1953)
* "W. transvaalensiscite journal
author = Le, R.S.F.
year = 1963
title = Walkomiella transvaalensis, a new conifer from the Middle Ecca beds of Vereeniging, Transvaal ] "
* "W. australis cite journal
author = White, M.E.
year = 1981
title = The cones of Walkomiella australis (Feistm.) Florin
journal = The Palaeobotanist
pages = 28–29 ] " (Florin 1940)
fossil_range = Permian

"Walkomiella" is an extinct conifer-like gymnospermcite journal
author = Leppik, E.E.
year = 1973
title = Origin and evolution of conifer rusts in the light of continental drift
journal = Mycopathologia
volume = 49
issue = 2
pages = 121–136
url = http://www.springerlink.com/index/W032080861R014L8.pdf
accessdate = 2007-08-08 ] genus which occurred in India and Africa in the Lower Permian, and in Australia in the Upper Permian.

It was named for Arthur Bache Walkom, an Australian palaeobotanist.

References

* [http://www.grisda.org/jgibson/Biogeography/in.bg.htm A Biogeographical History of India]