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Appofructus
Genus Appofructus Friis, P.R. Crane, K.R. Pedersen Foss. Impr., 75(2): 193. 25 Nov 2019
- Name
- Appofructus
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Friis E. M.
Crane P. R.
Pedersen K. R.
- Publication
- The Early Cretaceous mesofossil flora of Torres Vedras (NE of Forte da Forca), Portugal: a palaeofloristic analysis of an early angiosperm community [2019/11]
- Journal
- Fossil Imprint
- Volume
- 75
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 193
- Year
- 2019
- Parent Taxon
- [Class] Magnoliopsida
- Fossil Status
- fruits
- Type
- Appofructus nudus
- Diagnosis
- Small, isolated unilocular and one-seeded
fruits. Fruits rounded with an oblique stalk at the base of
the ventral margin. Stigma sessile, rounded. Fruit wall thin
with smooth outer surface lacking trichomes. Pollen grains
monocolpate, oblate, circular to elliptical in equatorial
outline, tectate, almost smooth with microechinate surface
sculpturing.
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