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This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

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Types of fossil spores and pollen. Left, top, spore of the large black tree-fern, Cyathea medullaris (Forst. f.) Swartz, found from the Upper Pliocene to the present day; bottom, spore (type specimen) of Osmundacidites wellmanii Couper, a fern, Jurassic t