English: Diagramatic reconstructions of glossopterid pollen-bearing organs.

A, Glossotheca utkalensis Surange et Maheshwari, 1970 bract with partially adnate sporangiophore with multiple pairs of major branches (adapted from Surange and Maheshwari, 1970, text-fig. 4).

B, Eretmonia hinjradaensis Surange et Maheshwari, 1970 bract bearing a partially adnate, sporangiophore with a single pair of major branches (adapted from Surange and Chandra, 1974a, text-fig. 11).

C, Reconstruction of Nesowalesia edwardsii as a peltate organ (redrawn from Rigby et Chandra, 1990, fig. 1).

D, Reconstruction of an un-named elongate lax pollen cone from the Lopingian of the Karoo Basin, South Africa (see Fig. 1J).

E, Loose cone of Ediea homevalensis Nishida et al., 2013 in profile view (redrawn from Nishida et al., 2013, fig. 1f).

F, Loose cone of Ediea homevalensis in cross-section (redrawn from Nishida et al., 2013, fig. 1f). Scale bar = 1 mm.

G. Oblique section through an Ediea-like pollen cone from the MacMillan Formation, Bowen Basin, Australia