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Corylopsis maii
Corylopsis maii M.E. Collinson, Manchester, V. Wilde Abh. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges., 570: 25. 29 Jun 2012
- Name
- Corylopsis maii
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Corylopsis
- Authors (Pub.)
- Collinson M. E.
Manchester S. R.
Wilde V.
- Publication
- Fossil fruits and seeds of the Middle Eocene Messel biota, Germany [2012/6]
- Journal
- Abhandlungen [herausgegeben von] der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft
- Volume
- 570
- Page number
- 25
- Year
- 2012
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Corylopsis
- Fossil Status
- infructescences
- Stratigraphy
- Lutetian
- Location
- Messel, Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse, Germany
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Europe)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Frankfurt, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Repository Number
- SM.B Me 14508
- Diagnosis
- Infructescence spicate, consisting of a stout axis up to 1.5 mm thick, and up to 52 mm long, with helically arranged, sessile fruits. Individual fruit capsules rounded-quadrangular to subcircular in lateral outline (5–5.8 mm in height and breadth), opening loculicidally from the apex. Fruits with rough, irregularly verrucate surface, with a median longitudinal septal groove in a plane of bisymmetry extending to the apex. A pair of short, thick, persistent styles well separated from each other at the apex, with tips divergent and slightly outwardly curved. Cup-like structure (calyx) surrounding the base of each fruit, reaching about a quarter to a third of the distance from the base, with a smooth, unlobed margin. Number of fruits per axis up to 18 or more.
