This article records new taxa of fossil plants that were described during the year 2015, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleobotany that occurred in 2015.
Algaes
Charophytes
Chlorophytes
Rhodophytes
Non-vascular plants
Bryophyta
Marchantiophyta
Ferns and fern allies
Bennettitales
Lycophytes
Czekanowskiales
Ginkgophytes
Conifers
Araucariaceae
Cupressaceae
Pinaceae
Other conifers
Conifer research A study on the morphology, identity and affinity of the purported Cretaceous pitcher plant Archaeamphora longicervia is published by Wong et al. (2015), who interpret the supposed pitchers as insect-induced leaf galls, and consider A. longicervia to be insect-galled leaves of the gymnosperm species Liaoningocladus boii.
Other seed plants
Flowering plants
Basal angiosperms
Unplaced non-eudicots
Magnoliids
Monocots
Basal eudicots
Superasterids
Angiosperm research Pollen grains representing the oldest fossils of members of the family Asteraceae discovered so far are described from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica by Barreda et al. (2015).
Superrosids
Saxifragales
Vitales
Fabids
Malvids
Other angiosperms
Other plants
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