👉 A palaeostriatum is a type of plant that has been preserved in its original environment. The term was first used by Carl Linnaeus, who described a group of plants as "palaeostriata" in his seminal work on botany in 1753. Palaeostriata are characterized by their absence of any fossilization or other external evidence of their former existence. Instead, they were found to have been deposited in the same environment where they lived and
