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Korallipteris
Genus Korallipteris E.I. Vera, Passalia Geobios (Lyon), 45(4): 421. 27 Jun 2012
- Name
- Korallipteris
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Vera E. I.
Passalia M. G.
- Publication
- Korallipteris, a new genus for Mesozoic Gleichenia-like fern fronds [2012/6]
- Journal
- Geobios
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 4
- Page number
- 421
- Year
- 2012
- Parent Taxon
- [Class] Gleicheniopsida
- Fossil Status
- foliage (fertile)
- Diagnosis
- Fertile or sterile fronds, pinnate, bipinnate, tripinnate
or dichotomously branched, without an arrested laminar bud;
primary pinnae variable in size and shape; secondary pinnae
alternate to sub-opposite; pinnules small (ca. 5 mm wide and
long), alternate to opposite, elliptic or deltoid to falcate or rhombic,
apex round to acute; pinnule venation consisting of a midvein and
two to five pairs of lateral veins, simple and/or branched once or
twice; when fertile, having one to numerous circular sori in the
abaxial side of the pinnules.
