Description

Lebachia piniformis
Gymnosperm
Early Permian
Abo Formation
Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico, USA

Superb branch on 160mm light tan slab. A great rare piece.

Lebachia is a genus of cone-bearing plants of the Late Carboniferous to Early Permian.  It has been said to be close to the ancestry of many modern conifers.

This comes from a site few know about and even fewer collect anymore. Oddball plant from an oddball site.