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Hedyflora
Genus Hedyflora Friis, P.R. Crane, K.R. Pedersen Int. J. Pl. Sci., 180(3): 233. 7 Feb 2019
- Name
- Hedyflora
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Friis E. M.
Crane P. R.
Pedersen K. R.
- Publication
- Hedyosmum-like fossils in the early cretaceous diversification of angiosperms [2019/2]
- Journal
- International Journal of Plant Sciences
- Volume
- 180
- Issue
- 3
- Page number
- 233
- Year
- 2019
- Parent Taxon
- [Family] Chloranthaceae
- Fossil Status
- flowers
- Type
- Hedyflora crystallifera
- Diagnosis
- Flowers, unisexual, apedicellate, epigynous,
with one whorl of three free tepals at the top of a triangular
ovary. Hypanthium with lateral depressions (windows).
Ovary unilocular with a single pendant, orthotropous, and bitegmic
ovule. Stigma one. Fruit a nut. Seed endotestal; endotesta
of a single layer of endoreticulate and crystalliferous cells; exotegmen
of a single layer of sclerenchyma cells.
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