Professor Dianne Edwards

MA, PhD, ScD(Cantab) CBE FRS FRSE FLS FLSW

2025

• Larkum, A. et al., 2025. John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more. Photosynthesis Research 163 (2) 18. (10.1007/s11120-025-01139-4)

2024

• Morris, J. L. et al., 2024. Lower Devonian Tortilicaulis is an early tracheophyte and not a bryophyte. Fossil Imprint 80 (1), pp.135-153. (10.37520/fi.2024.012)

2022

• Edwards, D. , Li, C. and Berry, C. M. 2022. Lower Devonian lycophytes from Sichuan and the palaeogeographic context of coeval plant assemblages from South China. International Journal of Plant Sciences 183 (6)(10.1086/720387)
• Edwards, D. et al. 2022. Earliest record of transfer cells in Lower Devonian plants. New Phytologist 233 (3), pp.1456-1465. (10.1111/nph.17704)
• Edwards, D. et al. 2022. Picking up the pieces: New charcoalified plant mesofossils (eophytes) from a Lower Devonian Lagerst?tte in the Welsh Borderland, UK. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 297 104567. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104567)
• Edwards, D. et al. 2022. Piecing together the eophytes - a new group of ancient plants containing cryptospores. New Phytologist 233 (3), pp.1440-1455. (10.1111/nph.17703)

2020

• Edwards, D. et al. 2020. Further evidence for fungivory in the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of the Welsh Borderland, UK. PalZ. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 94 , pp.603-618. (10.1007/s12542-019-00503-9)

2018

• Edwards, D. et al. 2018. Anatomically preserved Silurian 'nematophytes' from the Welsh Borderland (UK). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 187 (2), pp.272-291. (10.1093/botlinnean/boy022)
• Edwards, D. , Kenrick, P. and Dolan, L. 2018. History and contemporary significance of the Rhynie cherts - our earliest preserved terrestrial ecosystem.. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences 373 (1739) 20160489. (10.1098/rstb.2016.0489)
• Edwards, D. and Li, C. 2018. Diversity in affinities of plants with lateral sporangia from the Lower Devonian of Sichuan Province, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 258 , pp.98-111. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2018.07.002)
• Edwards, D. and Li, C. 2018. Further insights into the Lower Devonian terrestrial vegetation of Sichuan Province, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 253 , pp.37-48. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2018.03.004)
• Honegger, R. et al., 2018. Fertile Prototaxites taiti: a basal ascomycete with inoperculate, polysporous asci lacking croziers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 373 (1739) 20170146. (10.1098/rstb.2017.0146)
• Morris, J. and Edwards, D. 2018. The advantages and frustrations of a plant Lagerstätte as illustrated by a new taxon from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland, UK.. In: Krings, M. et al., Transformative Paleobotany 1st Edition. Papers to Commemorate the Life and Legacy of Thomas N. Taylor. Academic Press
• Morris, J. L. et al. 2018. Timescale of early land plant evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (10), pp.E2274-E2283. (10.1073/pnas.1719588115)
• Puttick, M. N. et al., 2018. The interrelationships of land plants and the nature of the ancestral embryophyte. Current Biology 28 (5), pp.733-745.e2. (10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.063)

2017

• Benton, M. J. et al., 2017. Russia-UK collaboration in paleontology: past, present, and future. Paleontological Journal 51 (6), pp.576-599. (10.1134/S0031030117060028)
• Edwards, D. 2017. Glimpses of the botanical history of Wales. The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 23 , pp.8-18.
• Edwards, D. 2017. Q & A Dianne Edwards. Current Biology 27 (14), pp.R685-R686. (10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.054)

2016

• Edwards, D. , Geng, B. and Li, C. 2016. New plants from the Lower Devonian Pingyipu Group, Jiangyou County, Sichuan Province, China. Plos One 11 (11), pp.e0163549. (10.1371/journal.pone.0163549)

2015

• Edwards, D. 2015. A palaeobotanical pot-pourri. Palaeontology 58 (1), pp.1-3. (10.1111/pala.12143)
• Edwards, D. , Cherns, L. and Raven, A. J. 2015. Could land-based early photosynthesizing ecosystems have bioengineered the planet in mid- Palaeozoic times?. Palaeontology 58 (5), pp.803-837. (10.1111/pala.12187)
• Edwards, D. and Kenrick, P. 2015. The early evolution of land plants, from fossils to genomics: a commentary on Lang (1937) 'On the plant-remains from the Downtonian of England and Wales'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences 370 (1666) 20140343. (10.1098/rstb.2014.0343)
• Edwards, D. et al. 2015. Additional observations on Zosterophyllum yunnanicum Hsü from the Lower Devonian of Yunnan, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 221 , pp.220-229. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.03.007)

2014

• Edwards, D. et al. 2014. Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras. New Phytologist 202 (1), pp.50-78. (10.1111/nph.12645)
• Morris, J. and Edwards, D. 2014. An analysis of vegetational change in the Lower Devonian: New data from the Lochkovian of the Welsh Borderland, U.K.. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 211 , pp.28-54. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.09.006)
• Raven, J. A. and Edwards, D. 2014. Photosynthesis in early land plants: adapting to the terrestrial environment. In: Hanson, D. T. and Rice, S. K. eds. Photosynthesis in Bryophytes and Early Land Plants. Vol. 37, Springer. , pp.29-58. (10.1007/978-94-007-6988-5_3)

2013

• Channing, A. and Edwards, D. 2013. Wetland megabias: ecological and ecophysiological filtering dominates the fossil record of hot spring floras. Palaeontology 56 (3), pp.523-556. (10.1111/pala.12043)
• Edwards, D. , Axe, L. and Honegger, R. 2013. Contributions to the diversity in cryptogamic covers in the mid-Palaeozoic: 'Nematothallus' revisited. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 173 (4), pp.505-534. (10.1111/boj.12119)
• Honegger, R. , Axe, L. and Edwards, D. 2013. Bacterial epibionts and endolichenic actinobacteria and fungi in the Lower Devonian lichen Chlorolichenomycites salopensis. Fungal Biology 117 (7-8), pp.512-518. (10.1016/j.funbio.2013.05.003)
• Honegger, R. , Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 2013. The earliest records of internally stratified cyanobacterial and algal lichens from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland. New Phytologist 197 (1), pp.264-275. (10.1111/nph.12009)
• Wang, Y. et al., 2013. Enigmatic occurrence of Permian plant roots in Lower Silurian rocks, Guizhou Province, China. Palaeontology 56 (4), pp.679-683. (10.1111/pala.12019)

2012

• Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 2012. Evidence for a fungal affinity for Nematasketum, a close ally of Prototaxites. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 168 (1), pp.1-18. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.2011.01195.x)
• Edwards, D. et al. 2012. Notes on sporangia and spore masses containing tetrads or monads from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of the Welsh Borderland, U.K.. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 179 , pp.56-85. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.03.008)
• Edwards, D. et al. 2012. A new group of Early Devonian plants with valvate sporangia containing sculptured permanent dyads. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 168 (3), pp.229-257. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.2011.01207.x)
• Edwards, D. , Selden, P. A. and Axe, L. 2012. Selective Feeding in an Early Devonian Terrestrial Ecosystem. Palaios 27 (7), pp.509-522. (10.2110/palo.2011.p11-094r)
• Guo, C. et al., 2012. Riccardiothallus devonicus gen. et sp. nov., the earliest simple thalloid liverwort from the Lower Devonian of Yunnan, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 176-77 , pp.35-40. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.03.012)
• Morris, J. et al. 2012. Further insights into trilete spore producers from the Early Devonian (Lochkovian) of the Welsh Borderland, U.K.. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 185 , pp.35-63. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.08.001)
• Morris, J. et al. 2012. New dyad-producing plants from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of the Welsh Borderland.. Botanical Journal- Linnean Society 169 (4), pp.569-595. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.2012.01231.x)
• Morris, J. L. , Wright, V. P. and Edwards, D. 2012. Siluro-Devonian landscapes of southern Britain: the stability and nature of early vascular plant habitats. Journal of the Geological Society 169 (2), pp.173-190. (10.1144/0016-76492011-072)

2011

• Channing, A. et al. 2011. Equisetum thermale sp. nov. (Equisetales) from the Jurassic San Agustin hot spring deposit, Patagonia: Anatomy, paleoecology, and inferred paleoecophysiology. American Journal of Botany 98 (4), pp.680-697. (10.3732/ajb.1000211)
• Edwards, D. , Spears, P. and Channing, A. 2011. Flowering plant families at the National Botanic Garden of Wales based on the classification system of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. London: FIRST.
• Morris, J. L. et al. 2011. New plant taxa from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of the Welsh Borderland, with a hypothesis on the relationship between hilate and trilete spore producers. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 167 (1-2), pp.51-81. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.06.007)
• Morris, J. L. et al. 2011. Small is beautiful: investigations into Early Devonian plant mesofossils from the Welsh borderland, UK. Presented at: The Palaeontological Association 55th Annual Meeting Plymouth, UK 17-20 December 2011.
• Morris, J. L. , Richardson, J. B. and Edwards, D. 2011. Lower Devonian plant and spore assemblages from Lower Old Red Sandstone strata of Tredomen Quarry, South Wales. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 165 (3-4), pp.183-208. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.03.003)

2010

• Morris, J. L. , Edwards, D. and Richardson, J. B. 2010. Small is beautiful: new investigations into Lower Devonian plant mesofossils and their in situ spores. Presented at: 25th New Phytologist / Colston Research Society Symposium: Colonization of the terrestrial environment Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol, UK 21-22 September 2010.

2009

• Channing, A. and Edwards, D. 2009. Silicification of higher plants in geothermally influenced wetlands: Yellowstone as a Lower Devonian Rhynie analog. Palaios 24 (8), pp.505-521. (10.2110/palo.2008.p08-131r)
• Channing, A. and Edwards, D. 2009. Yellowstone hot spring environments and the palaeo-ecophysiology of Rhynie chert plants: towards a synthesis. Plant Ecology & Diversity 2 (2), pp.111-143. (10.1080/17550870903349359)
• Edwards, D. et al. 2009. Enigmatic fossils from the Upper Silurian of Bolivia: evidence for marine productivity in high-latitude Gondwana. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 325 (1), pp.177-200. (10.1144/SP325.10)
• Edwards, D. et al. 2009. Plant assemblages from SW Gondwana: further evidence for high-latitude vegetation in the Devonian of Argentina. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 325 (1), pp.233-255. (10.1144/SP325.12)
• Yang, N. , Li, C. S. and Edwards, D. 2009. Hueberia Zhichangensis gen. et sp. nov, an Early Devonian (Pragian) plant from Yunnan, China. Palynology 33 (1), pp.113-124. (10.2113/gspalynol.33.1.113)

2008

• Baars, C. and Edwards, D. 2008. Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on spore capsules of the moss Leptobryum pyriforme. Journal of Bryology 30 (1), pp.36-40. (10.1179/174328208X282094)
• Baars, C. , Jones, T. H. and Edwards, D. 2008. Microcosm studies of the role of land plants in elevating soil carbon dioxide and chemical weathering. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 22 (3) GB3019. (10.1029/2008GB003228)
• Hillier, R. D. , Edwards, D. and Morrissey, L. B. 2008. Sedimentological evidence for rooting structures in the Early Devonian Anglo-Welsh Basin (UK), with speculation on their producers. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 270 (3-4), pp.366-380. (10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.01.038)
• Yang, N. et al., 2008. The discovery of fertile Haskinsia colophylla (Haskinsiaceae) in far East Russia. Taxon 57 (2), pp.588-593.

2007

• Edwards, D. et al. 2007. The earliest vascular plant or a later rooting system? Pinnatiramosus qianensis from the marine Lower Silurian Xiushan Formation, Guizhou Province, China. Palaios 22 (2), pp.155-165. (10.2110/palo.2005.p05-125r)

2006

• Edwards, D. 2006. Danziella artesiana, a new name for Zosterophyllum artesianum from the Lower Devonian of Artois, northern France. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 142 (3-4), pp.93-101. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.04.008)
• Edwards, D. et al. 2006. Provenance and age of bacteria-like structures on mid-Palaeozoic plant fossils. International Journal of Astrobiology 5 (2), pp.109-142. (10.1017/S147355040600303X)
• Edwards, D. , Li, C. and Raven, J. A. 2006. Tracheids in an early vascular plant: a tale of two branches. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 150 (1), pp.115-130. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.2006.00450.x)
• Glasspool, I. J. , Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 2006. Charcoal in the Early Devonian: A wildfire-derived Konservat–Lagerstätte. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 142 (3-4), pp.131-136. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.03.021)

2005

• Sun, T. , Edwards, D. and Li, C. 2005. The stomatal apparatus of Lycopodium japonicum and its bearing on the stomata of the Devonian lycophyte Drepanophycus spinaeformis. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 149 (2), pp.209-216. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.2005.00434.x)

2004

• Channing, A. , Edwards, D. and Sturtevant, S. 2004. A geothermally influenced wetland containing unconsolidated geochemical sediments. Canadian journal of earth sciences 41 (7), pp.809-827. (10.1139/e04-034)
• Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 2004. Anatomical evidence in the detection of the earliest wildfires. Palaios 19 (2), pp.113-128. (10.1669/0883-1351(2004)019<0113:AEITDO>2.0.CO;2)
• Edwards, D. et al. 2004. New Silurian cooksonias from dolostones of north-eastern North America. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 146 (4), pp.399-413. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.2004.00332.x)
• Edwards, D. and Richardson, J. B. 2004. Silurian and Lower Devonian plant assemblages from the Anglo-Welsh Basin: a palaeobotanical and palynological synthesis. Geological Journal 39 (34), pp.375-402. (10.1002/gj.997)
• Glasspool, I. J. , Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 2004. Charcoal in the Silurian as evidence for the earliest wildfire. Geology 32 (5), pp.381-383. (10.1130/G20363.1)
• Raven, J. A. and Edwards, D. 2004. Physiological evolution of lower embryophytes: adaptations to the terrestrial environment. In: Hemsley, A. R. and Poole, I. eds. The Evolution of Plant Physiology. Linnean Society Symposium Series Vol. 21.Amsterdam: Elsevier Academic Press. , pp.17-41.

2003

• Channing, A. and Edwards, D. 2003. Experimental taphonomy: silicification of plants in Yellowstone hot-spring environments. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Earth sciences 94 (4), pp.503-521. (10.1017/S0263593300000845)
• Edwards, D. 2003. Embryophytic sporophytes in the Rhynie and Windyfield cherts. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 94 (4), pp.397-410. (10.1017/S0263593300000778)
• Edwards, D. 2003. Xylem in early tracheophytes. Plant, Cell & Environment 26 (1), pp.57-72. (10.1046/j.1365-3040.2003.00878.x)
• Edwards, D. , Axe, L. and Duckett, J. G. 2003. Diversity in conducting cells in early land plants and comparisons with extant bryophytes. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141 (3), pp.297-347. (10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.00153.x)

2002

• Grimes, S. T. et al., 2002. Fossil plants from the Eocene London Clay: the use of pyrite textures to determine the mechanism of pyritization. Journal of the Geological Society 159 (5), pp.493-501. (10.1144/0016-764901-176)
• Habgood, K. S. , Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 2002. New perspectives on Cooksonia from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 139 (4), pp.339-359. (10.1046/j.1095-8339.2002.00073.x)
• Rogerson, C. et al., 2002. A new embryophyte from the Upper Silurian of Shropshire, England. In: Studies in Palaeozoic Palaeontology and Biostratigraphy in Honour of Charles Hepworth Holland. Special Papers in Palaeontology Vol. 67.Aberystwyth: Palaeontological Association. , pp.233-249.

2001

• Edwards, D. 2001. Early land plants. In: Briggs, D. E. G. and Crowther, P. R. eds. Palaeobiology II: A Synthesis. Oxford: Blackwell Science. , pp.63-66.
• Edwards, D. , Axe, L. and Mendez, E. 2001. A new genus for isolated bivalved sporangia with thickened margins from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 137 (3), pp.297-310. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.2001.tb01125.x)
• Edwards, D. et al. 2001. Land plants in the Devonian Villavicencio Formation, Mendoza Province, Argentina. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 116 (1-2), pp.1-18. (10.1016/S0034-6667(01)00059-8)
• Edwards, D. et al. 2001. Plant assemblages from the Silurian of southern Bolivia and their palaeogeographic significance. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 135 (3), pp.229-250. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.2001.tb01093.x)
• Edwards, D. and Wellman, C. 2001. Embryophytes on land: the Ordovician to Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) record. In: Gensel, P. and Edwards, D. eds. Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary & Environmental Perspectives. Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology New York: Columbia University Press. , pp.3-28.
• Grimes, S. T. et al., 2001. Understanding fossilization: Experimental pyritization of plants. Geology -Boulder- 29 (2), pp.123-126. (10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0123:UFEPOP>2.0.CO;2)
• Raven, J. A. and Edwards, D. 2001. Roots: evolutionary origins and biogeochemical significance. Journal of Experimental Botany 52 (S1), pp.381-401. (10.1093/jexbot/52.suppl_1.381)

2000

• Edwards, D. 2000. The role of Mid-Palaeozoic mesofossils in the detection of early bryophytes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B - Biological Sciences 355 (1398), pp.733-755. (10.1098/rstb.2000.0613)
• Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 2000. Novel conducting tissues in Lower Devonian plants. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 134 (1-2), pp.383-399. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.2000.tb02359.x)
• Edwards, D. , Duckett, J. G. and Read, D. J. 2000. Preface: Bryophyte phylogeny and interrelationships with early embryophytes - Papers of a discussion meeting organized and edited by D. Edwards, D. J. Read & J. G. Duckett. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B - Biological Sciences 355 (1398), pp.715-715. (10.1098/rstb.2000.0611)
• Edwards, D. , Fairon-Demaret, M. and Berry, C. M. 2000. Plant megafossils in Devonian stratigraphy: a progress report. In: Bultynck, P. ed. Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy: Fossil groups important for boundary definition. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg Vol. 220.Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart Science Publishers. , pp.25-37.
• Edwards, D. and Richardson, J. B. 2000. Progress in reconstructing vegetation on the Old Red Sandstone Continent: two Emphanisporites producers from the Lochkovian sequence of the Welsh Borderland. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 180 , pp.355-370. (10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.180.01.18)
• Powell, C. L. , Trewin, N. H. and Edwards, D. 2000. Palaeoecology and plant succession in a borehole through the Rhynie cherts, Lower Old Red Sandstone, Scotland. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 180 , pp.439-457. (10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.180.01.23)

1999

• Edwards, D. 1999. Origins of plant architecture: adapting to life in a brave new world. In: Kurmann, M. H. and Hemsley, A. R. eds. The Evolution of Plant Architecture. Brough: Kew Publishing. , pp.3-21.
• Edwards, D. , Wellman, C. H. and Axe, L. 1999. Tetrads in sporangia and spore masses from the Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 130 (2), pp.111-156. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1999.tb00515.x)
• Hilton, J. and Edwards, D. 1999. New data on Xenotheca devonica Arber and Goode, an enigmatic early seed plant cupule with preovules. In: Kurmann, M. H. and Hemsley, A. R. eds. The Evolution of Plant Architecture. Brough: Kew Publishing. , pp.75-90.
• Powell, C. L. , Edwards, D. and Trewin, N. H. 1999. A new vascular plant from the Lower Devonian Windyfield chert, Rhynie, NE Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 90 , pp.331-349.

1998

• Abbott, G. D. et al., 1998. Molecular characterization of some enigmatic Lower Devonian fossils. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 62 (8), pp.1407-1418. (10.1016/S0016-7037(98)00078-7)
• Edwards, D. 1998. Climate signals in Palaeozoic land plants. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences 353 (1365), pp.141-157. (10.1098/rstb.1998.0197)
• Edwards, D. , Kerp, H. and Hass, H. 1998. Stomata in early land plants: an anatomical and ecophysiological approach. Journal of Experimental Botany 49 (90001), pp.255-278. (10.1093/jxb/49.Special_Issue.255)
• Edwards, D. , Wellman, C. and Axe, L. 1998. The fossil record of early land plants and interrelationships between primitive embryophytes: too little and too late?. In: Bates, J. W. , Ashton, N. W. and Duckett, J. G. eds. Bryology for the Twenty-First Century. Leeds: British Bryological Society (Maney Publishing). , pp.15-43.
• Wellman, C. H. , Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 1998. Permanent dyads in sporangia and spore masses from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 127 (2), pp.117-147. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1998.tb02092.x)
• Wellman, C. H. , Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 1998. Ultrastructure of laevigate hilate spores in sporangia and spore masses from the Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences 353 (1378), pp.1983-2004.
• Wellman, C. H. et al., 1998. The Cosheston Group (Lower Old Red Sandstone) in southwest Wales: age, correlation and palaeobotanical significance. Geological Magazine 135 (3), pp.397-412. (10.1017/S0016756898008723)

1997

• Berry, C. M. and Edwards, D. 1997. A new species of the lycopsid Gilboaphyton Arnold from the Devonian of Venezuela and New York State, with a revision of the closely related genus Archaeosigillaria Kidston. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 96 (1-2), pp.47-70. (10.1016/S0034-6667(96)00015-2)
• Edwards, D. 1997. Charting diversity in early land plants: Some challenges for the next millennium. In: Iwatsuki, K. and Raven, P. H. eds. Evolution and Diversification of Land Plants. Tokyo: Springer. , pp.3-26.
• Edwards, D. , Ewbank, G. and Abbott, G. D. 1997. Flash pyrolysis of the outer cortical tissues in Lower DevonianPsilophyton dawsonii. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 124 (4), pp.345-360. (10.1006/bojl.1997.0101)
• Li, C. and Edwards, D. 1997. A new microphyllous plant from the Lower Devonian of Yunnan Province, China. American Journal of Botany 84 (10), pp.1441-1448. (10.2307/2446142)

1996

• Berry, C. M. and Edwards, D. 1996. Anapaulia moodyi gen et sp nov: A probable iridopteridalean compression fossil from the Devonian of western Venezuela. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 93 (1-4), pp.127-145. (10.1016/0034-6667(95)00123-9)
• Berry, C. M. and Edwards, D. 1996. The herbaceous lycophyte Haskinsia Grierson and Banks from the Devonian of western Venezuela, with observations on leaf morphology and fertile specimens. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 122 (2), pp.103-122. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1996.tb02067.x)
• Edwards, D. 1996. New insights into early land ecosystems: a glimpse of a Lilliputian world. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 90 (3-4), pp.159-174. (10.1016/0034-6667(95)00081-X)
• Edwards, D. , Abbott, G. D. and Raven, J. A. 1996. Cuticles of early land plants: a palaeoecophysiological evaluation. In: Plant Cuticles an integrated functional approach. Environmental Plant Biology Oxford: BIOS Scientific Publishers. , pp.1-31.
• Edwards, D. et al. 1996. Ultrastructure of synorisporites downtonensis and retusotriletes cf. coronadus in spore masses from the Pridoli of the Welsh Borderland. Palaeontology 39 (3), pp.783-800.
• Edwards, D. and Richardson, J. B. 1996. Review of in situ spores in early land plants. In: Jansonius, J. and McGregor, D. C. eds. Palynology: Principles and Applications. Vol. 1, Salt Lake City: American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation (Publishers Press). , pp.391-407.
• Edwards, D. and Wellman, C. 1996. Older plant macerals (excluding spores). In: Jansonius, J. and McGregor, D. C. eds. Palynology: Principles and Applications. Vol. 1, Salt Lake City: American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation (Publishers Press). , pp.383-387.
• Ewbank, G. , Edwards, D. and Abbott, G. D. 1996. Chemical characterization of Lower Devonian vascular plants. Organic Geochemistry 25 (8), pp.461-473. (10.1016/S0146-6380(96)00140-4)
• Hilton, J. and Edwards, D. 1996. A new Late Devonian acupulate preovule from the Taff Gorge, South Wales. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 93 (1-4), pp.235-252. (10.1016/0034-6667(95)00128-X)
• Li, C. and Edwards, D. 1996. Demersatheca Li et Edwards, gen. nov., a new genus of early land plants from the Lower Devonian, Yunnan Province, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 93 (1-4), pp.77-88. (10.1016/0034-6667(95)00120-4)
• Wellman, C. H. , Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 1996. Curation of exceptionally preserved early land plant fossils: problems and solutions. Curator: The Museum Journal 39 (3), pp.209-216. (10.1111/j.2151-6952.1996.tb01094.x)

1995

• Berry, C. M. and Edwards, D. 1995. New species of the lycophyte Colpodexylon Banks from the Devonian of Venezuela. Palaeontographica Abteilung B -Stuttgart- 237 (1-3), pp.59-74.
• Edwards, D. et al. 1995. The ultrastructure of spores of Cooksonia pertoni. Palaeontology 38 (1), pp.153-168.
• Edwards, D. , Duckett, J. G. and Richardson, J. B. 1995. Hepatic characters in the earliest land plants. Nature 374 (6523), pp.635-636. (10.1038/374635a0)
• Edwards, D. et al. 1995. Exceptional preservation in Lower Devonian coalified fossils from the Welsh Borderland: a new genus based on reniform sporangia lacking thickened borders. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 117 (3), pp.233-254. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1995.tb00454.x)
• Edwards, D. et al. 1995. Coprolites as evidence for plant–animal interaction in Siluro–Devonian terrestrial ecosystems. Nature 377 (6547), pp.329-331. (10.1038/377329a0)
• Li, C. and Edwards, D. 1995. A re-investigation of Halle's Drepanophycus spinaeformis Göpp. from the Lower Devonian of Yunnan Province, southern China. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 118 (3), pp.163-192. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1995.tb00468.x)
• Morel, E. , Edwards, D. and Iñigez Rodriguez, M. 1995. The first record of Cooksonia from South America in Silurian rocks of Bolivia. Geological Magazine 132 (4), pp.449-452. (10.1017/S0016756800021506)

1994

• Berry, C. M. and Edwards, D. 1994. New data on the morphology and anatomy of the Devonian zosterophyll Serrulacaulis Hueber and Banks from Venezuela. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 81 (2-4), pp.141-150. (10.1016/0034-6667(94)90104-X)
• Edwards, D. 1994. Towards an understanding of pattern and process in the growth of early vascular plants. In: Ingram, D. S. and Hudson, A. eds. Shape and Form in Plants and Fungi. Linnean Society Symposium Series Vol. 16.London: Linnean Society of London (Academic Press). , pp.39-59.
• Edwards, D. , Fanning, U. and Richardson, J. B. 1994. Lower Devonian coalified sporangia from Shropshire: Salopella Edwards & Richardson and Tortilicaulis Edwards. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 116 (2), pp.89-110. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1994.tb00425.x)

1993

• Cai, C. , Dou, Y. and Edwards, D. 1993. New observations on a Pridoli plant assemblage from north Xinjiang, northwest China, with comments on its evolutionary and palaeogeographical significance. Geological Magazine 130 (2), pp.155-170. (10.1017/S0016756800009821)
• Edwards, D. 1993. Cells and tissues in the vegetative sporophytes of early land plants. New Phytologist 125 (2), pp.225-247. (10.1111/j.1469-8137.1993.tb03879.x)
• Rogerson, E. C. W. et al., 1993. Identification of in situ spores in a Silurian Cooksonia from the Welsh Borderland. In: Collinson, M. E. and Scott, A. C. eds. Studies in Palaeobotany and Palynology in Honour of Professor W.G. Chaloner. Special Papers in Palaeontology Vol. 49.London: The Palaeontological Association. , pp.17-30.

1992

• Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 1992. Stomata and mechanics of stomatal functioning in some early land plants. Presented at: International Symposium on Palaeobotany "Anatomical Investigations of Plant Fossils": 3rd International Senckenberg Conference Frankfurt am Main, Germany 1990. Published in: Schaarschmidt, F. ed. International Symposium on Palaeobotany "Anatomical Investigations of Plant Fossils": 3rd International Senckenberg Conference Frankfurt am Main 1990. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg Vol. 147. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart und Borntraeger. , pp.59-73.
• Edwards, D. , Davies, K. L. and Axe, L. 1992. A vascular conducting strand in the early land plant Cooksonia. Nature 357 (6380), pp.683-685. (10.1038/357683a0)
• Edwards, D. and Selden, P. A. 1992. The development of early terrestrial ecosystems. Botanical Journal of Scotland 46 (2), pp.337-366. (10.1080/03746600508684794)
• Fanning, U. , Edwards, D. and Richardson, J. B. 1992. A diverse assemblage of early land plants from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 109 (2), pp.161-188. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1992.tb00264.x)
• Li, C. and Edwards, D. 1992. A new genus of early land plants with novel strobilar construction from the Lower Devonian Posongchong Formation, Yunnan Province, China. Palaeontology 35 (2), pp.257-272.

1991

• Burgess, N. D. and Edwards, D. 1991. Classification of uppermost Ordovician to Lower Devonian tubular and filamentous macerals from the Anglo-Welsh Basin. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 106 (1), pp.41-66. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1991.tb02282.x)
• Edwards, D. and Berry, C. M. 1991. Silurian and Devonian. In: Cleal, C. J. ed. Plant Fossils in Geological Investigation: The Palaeozoic. Ellis Horwood Series in Applied Geology Chichester: Ellis Horwood Limited. , pp.117-153.
• Fanning, U. , Edwards, D. and Richardson, J. B. 1991. A new rhyniophytoid from the late Silurian of the Welsh Borderland. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 183 , pp.37-47.
• Fanning, U. , Richardson, J. B. and Edwards, D. 1991. A review of in situ spores in Silurian land plants. In: Blackmore, S. and Barnes, S. H. eds. Pollen and Spores: Patterns of Diversification. Systematics Association Special Volume Vol. 44.Oxford: The Systematics Association (Clarendon Press). , pp.25-47.
• Kenrick, P. , Edwards, D. and Dales, R. C. 1991. Novel ultrastructure in water-conducting cells of the Lower Devonian plant Sennicaulis hippocrepiformis. Palaeontology 34 (4), pp.751-766.
• Lyon, A. G. and Edwards, D. 1991. The first zosterophyll from the Lower Devonian Rhynie Chert, Aberdeenshire. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 82 , pp.323-332.

1990

• Edwards, D. 1990. Constraints on Silurian and Early Devonian phytogeographic analysis based on megafossils. Geological Society of London Memoirs 12 , pp.233-242. (10.1144/GSL.MEM.1990.012.01.22)
• Edwards, D. 1990. Silurian-Devonian paleobotany: problems, progress, and potential. In: Taylor, T. N. and Taylor, E. L. eds. Antarctic Paleobiology. Its Role in the Reconstruction of Gondwana. New York: Springer-Verlag. , pp.89-101. (10.1007/978-1-4612-3238-4_8)
• Edwards, D. and Burgess, N. D. 1990. Plants. In: Briggs, D. E. G. and Crowther, P. R. eds. Palaeobiology: A Synthesis. Paleobiology Vol. 1.Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications. , pp.60-64.
• Edwards, D. and Davies, M. S. 1990. Interpretations of early land plant radiations: 'facile adaptationist guesswork' or reasoned speculation?. In: Taylor, P. D. and Larwood, G. P. eds. Major Evolutionary Radiations. The Systematics Association Special Volume Vol. 42.Oxford: Systematics Association (Clarendon Press). , pp.351-376. (10.1093/oso/9780198577188.003.0016)
• Fanning, U. , Edwards, D. and Richardson, J. B. 1990. Further evidence for diversity in late Silurian land vegetation. Journal of the Geological Society 147 (4), pp.725-728. (10.1144/gsjgs.147.4.0725)
• Jeram, A. J. , Selden, P. A. and Edwards, D. 1990. Land animals in the Silurian: arachnids and myriapods from Shropshire, England. Science 250 (4981), pp.658-661. (10.1126/science.250.4981.658)

1989

• Edwards, D. 1989. Evolutionary innovation in early land plants. In: Harper, D. A. T. ed. William King D.Sc. - A Palaeontological Tribute. Galway: Galway University Press. , pp.33-43.
• Edwards, D. , Kenrick, P. and Carluccio, L. M. 1989. A reconsideration of cf. Psilophyton princeps (Croft & Lang, 1942), a zosterophyll widespread in the Lower Old Red Sandstone of South Wales. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 100 (4), pp.293-318. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1989.tb01723.x)
• Richardson, J. B. and Edwards, D. 1989. Sporomorphs and plant megafossils. In: Holland, C. H. and Bassett, M. G. eds. A Global Standard for The Silurian System. National Museum of Wales, Geological Series Vol. 9.Cardiff: National Museum of Wales. , pp.216-226.
• Selden, P. A. and Edwards, D. 1989. Colonisation of the land. In: Allen, K. and Briggs, D. E. G. eds. Evolution and the Fossil Record. London: Belhaven Press (Pinter Publishers Ltd). , pp.122-152.
• Shute, C. H. and Edwards, D. 1989. A new rhyniopsid with novel sporangium organization from the Lower Devonian of South Wales. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 100 (2), pp.111-137. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1989.tb01713.x)

1988

• Burgess, N. D. and Edwards, D. 1988. A new Palaeozoic plant closely allied to Prototaxites Dawson. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 97 (2), pp.189-203. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb02461.x)
• Fanning, U. , Richardson, J. B. and Edwards, D. 1988. Cryptic evolution in an early land plant. Evolutionary Trends in Plants (ETP) 2 (1), pp.13-24.
• Kenrick, P. and Edwards, D. 1988. A new zosterophyll from a recently discovered exposure of the Lower Devonian Senni Beds in Dyfed, Wales. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 98 (2), pp.97-115. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb01698.x)
• Kenrick, P. and Edwards, D. 1988. The anatomy of Lower Devonian Gosslingia breconensis Heard based on pyritized axes, with some comments on the permineralization process. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 97 (2), pp.95-123. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb02456.x)

1987

• Larsen, P. , Edwards, D. and Escher, J. C. 1987. Late Silurian plant megafossils from the Peary Land Group, North Greenland. Rapport Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse 133 , pp.107-112.

1986

• Ager, D. and Edwards, D. 1986. The fauna and flora of the Rhaetian of South Wales and adjacent areas. Nature in Wales, N.s. 4 (1/2), pp.71-79.
• Edwards, D. 1986. Dispersed cuticles of putative non-vascular plants from the Lower Devonian of Britain. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 93 (3), pp.259-275. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1982.tb01025.x)
• Edwards, D. 1986. Preservation in early vascular plants. Geology Today 2 (6), pp.176-181. (10.1111/j.1365-2451.1986.tb00202.x)
• Edwards, D. and Edwards, D. S. 1986. A reconsideration of the Rhyniophytina Banks. Presented at: International Symposium on Systematic and Taxonomic Approaches in Palaeobotany London, UK April 1985. Published in: Spicer, R. and Thomas, B. eds. Systematic and Taxonomic Approaches in Palaeobotany: Proceedings of an International Symposium held at Goldsmiths' College, London, April 1985. The Systematics Association Special Volume Vol. 31. Oxford: Systematics Association (Clarendon Press). , pp.199-220.
• Edwards, D. , Fanning, U. and Richardson, J. B. 1986. Stomata and sterome in early land plants. Nature 323 (6087), pp.438-440. (10.1038/323438a0)
• Edwards, D. and Kenrick, P. 1986. A new zosterophyll from the Lower Devonian of Wales. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 92 (3), pp.269-283. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1986.tb01432.x)
• Edwards, D. et al. 1986. Studies on Lower Devonian petrifactions from Britain, 3. Notes on putative fungal remains in zosterophylls from the Brecon Beacons, Powys, South Wales. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 48 (1-3), pp.241-251. (10.1016/0034-6667(86)90060-6)

1985

• Edwards, D. and Benedetto, J. L. 1985. Two new species of herbaceous lycopods from the Devonian of Venezuela with comments on their taphonomy. Palaeontology 28 (3), pp.599-618.
• Edwards, D. , Fanning, U. and Chaloner, W. G. 1985. Evolution and environment in the Late Silurian-Early Devonian: The rise of the Pteridophytes [and discussion]. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences 309 (1138), pp.147-165. (10.1098/rstb.1985.0076)

1984

• Edwards, D. and Rose, V. 1984. Cuticles of Nematothallus: a further enigma. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 88 (1-2), pp.35-54. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1984.tb01563.x)

1983

• Edwards, D. , Feehan, J. and Smith, D. G. 1983. A late Wenlock flora from Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 86 (1-2), pp.19-36. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1983.tb00715.x)

1982

• Bassett, M. G. and Edwards, D. 1982. Fossil plants from Wales. Geological Series Vol. 2Cardiff: National Museum of Wales.
• Edwards, D. 1982. Fragmentary non-vascular plant microfossils from the late Silurian of Wales. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 84 (3), pp.223-256. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1982.tb00536.x)
• Edwards, D. , Edwards, D. S. and Rayner, R. 1982. The cuticle of early vascular plants and its evolutionary significance. In: Cutler, E. F. , Alvin, K. A. and Price, C. E. eds. The Plant Cuticle. Linnean Society Symposium Series Vol. 10.Academic Press. , pp.341-361.

1981

• Edwards, D. 1981. Studies on Lower Devonian petrifactions from Britain. 2. Sennicaulis, a new form genus for sterile axes based on pyrite and limonite petrifactions from the Senni Beds. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 32 (2-3), pp.207-226. (10.1016/0034-6667(81)90004-X)

1980

• Edwards, D. 1980. Early land floras. In: Panchen, A. L. ed. The Terrestrial Environment and the Origin of Land Vertebrates. The Systematics Association Special Volume Vol. 15.London: Academic Press. , pp.55-85.
• Edwards, D. 1980. Studies on Lower devonian petrifactions from Britain. 1. Pyritised axes of Hostinella from the Brecon Beacons Quarry, Powys, South Wales. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 29 , pp.189-200. (10.1016/0034-6667(80)90058-5)
• Edwards, D. and Feehan, J. 1980. Records of Cooksonia-type sporangia from late Wenlock strata in Ireland. Nature 287 (5777), pp.41-42. (10.1038/287041a0)

1979

• Edwards, D. 1979. A late Silurian flora from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of south-west Dyfed. Palaeontology 22 (1), pp.23-52.
• Edwards, D. 1979. The early history of vascular plants based on late Silurian and early Devonian floras of the British Isles. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 8 , pp.405-410. (10.1144/GSL.SP.1979.008.01.46)
• Edwards, D. , Bassett, M. G. and Rogerson, E. C. W. 1979. The earliest vascular land plants: continuing the search for proof. Lethaia 12 (4), pp.313-324. (10.1111/j.1502-3931.1979.tb01017.x)
• Edwards, D. and Rogerson, E. C. W. 1979. New records of fertile Rhyniophytina from the late Silurian of Wales. Geological Magazine 116 (2), pp.93-98. (10.1017/S0016756800042503)

1978

• Edwards, D. , Richardson, J. B. and Thomas, R. G. 1978. Locality B8, B9, B10. Presented at: International Symposium on the Devonian System (P.A.D.S. 78) Bristol, UK September 1978. Published in: Friend, P. F. and Williams, B. P. J. eds. A field guide to selected outcrop areas of the Devonian of Scotland, the Welsh Borderland and South Wales: International Symposium on the Devonian System (P.A.D.S. 78), September 1978. Special Papers in Palaeontology Vol. 23. London: The Palaeontological Association. , pp.74-79.

1977

• Edwards, D. 1977. A new non-calcified alga from the upper Silurian of mid Wales. Palaeontology 20 (4), pp.823-832.

1976

• Edwards, D. 1976. The systematic position of Hicklingia edwardii Kidston and Lang. New Phytologist 76 (1), pp.173-181. (10.1111/j.1469-8137.1976.tb01449.x)
• Edwards, D. and Davies, E. C. W. 1976. Oldest recorded in situ tracheids. Nature 263 (5577), pp.494-495. (10.1038/263494a0)
• Scott, A. C. , Edwards, D. and Rolfe, W. D. I. 1976. Fossiliferous Lower Old Red Sandstone near Cardross, Dunbartonshire. Proceedings of the Geological Society of Glasgow 117 , pp.4-5.

1975

• Edwards, D. 1975. Some observations on the fertile parts of Zosterophyllum myretonianum Penhallow from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 69 (11), pp.251-265.
• Matten, L. C. , Lacey, W. S. and Edwards, D. 1975. Discovery of one of the oldest gymnosperm floras containing cupulate seeds. Phytologia 32 (4), pp.299-303.

1974

• Edwards, D. and Richardson, J. B. 1974. Lower Devonian (Dittonian) plants from the Welsh Borderland. Palaeontology 17 (2), pp.311-324.

1973

• Bassett, M. G. and Edwards, D. 1973. Fossil plants from Wales. Amgueddfa, Bulletin of the National Museum of Wales 13 , pp.2-27.
• Edwards, D. 1973. Devonian floras. In: Hallam, A. ed. Atlas of Palaeobiogeography. Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific. , pp.105-115.
• Gayer, R. A. et al. 1973. The structure of the Taff Gorge area, Glamorgan, and the stratigraphy of the Old Red Sandstone—Carboniferous Limestone transition. Geological Journal 8 (2), pp.345-374. (10.1002/gj.3350080212)

1972

• Edwards, D. 1972. A Zosterophyllum fructification from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of Scotland. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 14 (1-2), pp.77-83. (10.1016/0034-6667(72)90009-7)

1970

• Edwards, D. 1970. Fertile rhyniophytina from the Lower Devonian of Britain. Palaeontology 13 (3), pp.451-461.
• Edwards, D. 1970. Further observations on the Lower Devonian Plant, Gosslingia breconensis Heard. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B - Biological Sciences 258 (821), pp.225-243. (10.1098/rstb.1970.0034)

1969

• Edwards, D. 1969. Further observations on Zosterophyllum llanoveranum from the Lower Devonian of South Wales. American Journal of Botany 56 (2), pp.201-210.
• Edwards, D. 1969. Zosterophyllum from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of South Wales. New Phytologist 68 (4), pp.923-931. (10.1111/j.1469-8137.1969.tb06491.x)

1968

• Edwards, D. 1968. A new plant from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of South Wales. Palaeontology 11 (5), pp.683-690.

1965

• Edwards, D. and Banks, H. P. 1965. Branching in Gosslingia breconensis. American Journal of Botany 52 (6), pp.636.