A paper describing the research into the prehistoric species—known as Othniophyton elongatum, which translates to "alien plant"—has been published in the journal Annals of Botany.

As currently circumscribed, Polyscias is the second largest genus in Araliaceae, with ca. 150 species, and is found throughout much of the Old World tropics. Recent studies have shown that the genus ...

Pictured is the fossil plant species Othniophyton elongatum. The prehistoric species does not coincide with any surviving plant family, according to new research.