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Kasicarpa
Genus Kasicarpa N.P. Maslova, Golovn., Tekl. Acta Palaeobot., 45(2): 123. 15 Dec 2005
- Name
- Kasicarpa
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Maslova N. P.
Golovneva L. B.
Tekleva M. V.
- Publication
- Infructescences of Kasicarpa gen. nov. (Hamamelidales) from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) of the Chulym-Yenisey depression, Western Siberia, Russia [2005/12]
- Journal
- Acta Palaeobotanica
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 123
- Year
- 2005
- Parent Taxon
- [Family] Kasicarpaceae
- Fossil Status
- infructescences
- Type
- Kasicarpa melikianii
- Diagnosis
- Compound infructescences with several sessile pistillate heads. Head 5 mm in diameter, with massive receptacle and about 30–40 floral units at different developmental stages. Flowers radially spreading, tightly adpressed, monocarpellate, with a well-developed perianth approximately equal to or somewhat longer than gynoecium in immature flowers, about 2/3 of length of ripe fruit. Outer tepals thicker than inner tepals. Ripe fruits obconical, lacking a stylodium, thickly cutinized, hairless, distally with numerous anomocytic stomata. Seed solitary, orthotropous, narrowly ovate, with unitegmic integument, with a single cell layer, slender sclereids and thick endosperm with a distinct aleurone layer.
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