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Nelumbites aravensis
Nelumbites aravensis Krassilov in Krassilov, Lewy, Nevo, Silant. Late Cret. (Turon.) Fl. S. Negev, Israel 99. Apr 2005
- Name
- Nelumbites aravensis
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Nelumbites
- Authors (Name)
- Krassilov V. A.
- Authors (Pub.)
- Krassilov V. A.
Lewy Z.
Nevo E.
Silantieva N.
- Publication
- Late Cretaceous (Turonian) Flora of Southern Negev, Israel [2005/4]
- Authors (Book)
- Krassilov V. A.
Lewy Z.
Nevo E.
Silantieva N.
- Book
- Late Cretaceous (Turonian) Flora of Southern Negev, Israel
- Page number
- 99
- Year
- 2005
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Turonian
- Strat. comment
- Upper Shale Member of Ora Formation
- Location
- Gerofit locality at the mouth of Gerofit Valley 60 km north of Eilat, southern Israel
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Middle East)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- University of Haifa, Institute of Evolution, Haifa, Israel
- Repository Number
- IG1-507,
counterpart IG1-504
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- University of Haifa, Institute of Evolution, Haifa, Israel
- Repository Number
- IG1-495, Ig1-759, IG1-762
- Diagnosis
- Columnar rhizomes about 20 mm thick with rootlet
scars and radially spreading linear roots. Linear rhizomes irregularly
branched, 5 – 10 mm thick, with leaf petioles and scales at nodes. Leaf
petioles in ochrea at base, thick, striate, eccentrically attached to the blade.
Leaf blades dimorphic, funnel-shaped with nearly central petiole insertion
or flat, with eccentric petiole insertion. Leaf margin entire, slightly
undulate. Primary veins radial, numerous, prominent, straight or slightly
curved, arising in pairs, repeatedly unequally forked distally, looping along
the margin, more numerous in the funnel-shaped leaves. Tertiary veins
arising as slender lateral branches of primary veins, angular-scalariform.
Quaternary and quinternary venation forming regular polygonal networks.
