Rhynia
| Rhynia Temporal range: | |
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| Reconstruction of Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii, redrawn after Kenrick & Crane (1997:101) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Subdivision: | †Rhyniophytina |
| Class: | †Rhyniopsida |
| Order: | †Rhyniales |
| Family: | †Rhyniaceae |
| Genus: | †Rhynia Kidst. & W.H.Lang (1917) |
| Type species | |
| R. gwynne-vaughanii Kidst. & W.H.Lang (1917) | |
| Species | |
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Rhynia is a single-species genus of Devonian vascular plants. Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii was the sporophyte generation of a vascular, axial, free-sporing diplohaplontic embryophytic land plant of the Early Devonian that had anatomical features more advanced than those of the bryophytes. Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii was a member of a sister group to all other eutracheophytes, including modern vascular plants.