Editing Lepidodendron (section)

=== Overview ===
[[File:Lepidostrobus variabilis 2.jpg|thumb|''Lepidostrobus'', the [[strobilus]] of ''Lepidodendron'' lycophytes|370x370px]]
[[File:Lepidodendrales reconstrucción 02.jpg|left|thumb|Reconstruction of ''Lepidodendron'' (second from left) compared to a juvenile scale tree (far left) and other [[Lepidodendrales]], which from left to right include ''[[Lepidophloios]], [[Synchysidendron]], [[Diaphorodendron]]'' and ''[[Sigillaria]].'']]
''Lepidodendron'' species were comparable in size to modern trees. The plants had tapering trunks as wide as {{cvt|2|m|ft}} at their base that rose to about {{cvt|40|m}}<ref name="Lopatin">
{{cite book
| isbn = 978-5-903825-14-1
| url         = http://www.ras.ru/paleontological_museum/ae617790-a2fb-43c8-a511-1251c0e32004.aspx?hidetoc=0
| title       = Палеонтологический музей имени Ю.А. Орлова (The Orlov Museum of Paleontology)
| publisher   = Moscow: PIN RAN
| date        = 2012
| access-date  = 2020-10-05
| page        = 56
| author      = A. V. Lopatin
}}</ref> and even {{cvt|50|m}},<ref name="Alekhin">
{{cite book
| url         = https://books.google.com/books?id=OUIPAQAAMAAJ&q=лепидодендроны
| title       = Geografiia rastenii s osnovani botaniki (Geography of plants and basics of botany)
| publisher   = Gos. nauchno-pedagog. izd-vo
| date        = 1961
| access-date  = 2020-10-05
| page        = 167
| author      = V. V. Alekhin
}}</ref> arising from an underground system of horizontally spreading branches that were covered with many rootlets. Though the height of the lycopsids make the plants similar to modern trees, the constant [[Glossary of botanical terms#dichotomous|dichotomy]] of branches created a [[Glossary of plant morphology#Plant habit|habit]] that contrasts with that of modern trees. At the ends of branches were oval-shaped [[strobilus|strobili]] called ''Lepidostrobus'' that had a similar shape to modern cones of a [[spruce]] or [[fir]].<ref name="Students">{{cite book |pages= 93–192 |title= Fossil plants: for students of botany and geology |volume= 1 |url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/115734 |publisher= Cambridge University Press |author= Seward, Albert Charles |year= 1898 }}</ref>