Back
Coahuilacarpon phytolaccoides
Coahuilacarpon phytolaccoides Cev.-Ferriz, Estrada-Ruiz, Pérez-Hernánd. Amer. J. Bot., 2008, 95(1): 79. 10 Dec 2007
- Name
- Coahuilacarpon phytolaccoides
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Coahuilacarpon
- Authors (Pub.)
- Cevallos-Ferriz S. R. S.
Estrada-Ruiz E.
Pérez-Hernández B. R.
- Publication
- Phytolaccaceae infructescence from Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Upper Cretaceous (Late Campanian), Coahuila, Mexico [2007/12]
- Journal
- American Journal of Botany
- Annee/Jahrgang
- 2008
- Volume
- 95
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 79
- Year
- 2007
- Fossil Status
- infructescences
- Stratigraphy
- Campanian
- Strat. comment
- Cerro del Pueblo Formation
- Location
- Rincón Colorado, General Cepeda Municipality, Mexico
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geología, México, México
- Repository Number
- IGM-PB 1244
- Diagnosis
- Multiple infructescence with 12, but up to 30
berries; fruits united to central vascularized axis occupying
central portion of infructescence, through pedicels; berries
small, subglobose, with six unilocular carpels, each with single
campylotropous ovule/seed, with single vascular bundle; pericarp
composed of three layers, external and internal ones composed
of palisade, middle layer of polyhedral cells; seeds with
two integumentary layers, external layer with outer zone of single
thick-walled cells forming a palisade, inner zone composed
of thin-walled rectangular/cylindrical cells, internal layer composed
of single palisade; single-layered nucellus with thin-walled
cells; embryonic reserve tissue (perisperm?) with
polyhedral thin-walled cells; curved dicotyledonous embryo.
Nomenclatural synonyms (basionyms)
Species
