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Breytenia plumsteadiae
Breytenia plumsteadiae Melville Bot. J. Linn. Soc., 86(3): 276. 25 May 1983
- Name
- Breytenia plumsteadiae
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Breytenia
- Authors (Pub.)
- Melville R.
- Publication
- Two new genera of Glossopteridae [1983/5]
- Journal
- Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
- Volume
- 86
- Issue
- 3
- Page number
- 276
- Year
- 1983
- Fossil Status
- fructifications
- Stratigraphy
- Cisuralian
- Strat. comment
- Middle Ecca Series
- Location
- Breyten Colliery, E Transvaal, South Africa
- Paleoregion
- Gondwana (Africa)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository Number
- not specified
- Diagnosis
- A subglobular, urceolate fructification, 3&40 mm in diameter, with the walls 5-10 mm thick. The central cavity is c. 20 mm in diameter with a narrow tubular terminal orifice c. 2 mm in diameter. The cavity is filled with numerous ovules or seeds. Seeds apparently platyspermic and biconvex in edge-view. A number of vascular strands apparently radiating from the base, suggesting a dichotomous fascicle of strands to fertile elements.
