A new plant species from the Abo Formation, early Permian (Leonardian), of New Mexico, a colonizer of disturbed habitats with implications regarding rarity in the fossil record

The new species was a colonizer of disturbed habitats. The density of the stems, their upright habit, and the environment suggest a seed-plant affinity. Its rarity is puzzling given its inferred ecology and the decades of paleontological prospecting of the Abo Formation (and its northern and southern equivalents), which otherwise has uncovered numerous plant, animal, and ichnological remains.