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Taxodium viligense
Taxodium viligense Golovn. Paleobot., 10: 52. 5-31 Dec 2019
- Name
- Taxodium viligense
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Taxodium
- Authors (Pub.)
- Golovneva L. B.
- Publication
- Chingandzhinskaya flora Okhotsko-Chukotskogo vulkanogennogo poyasa [2019/12]
- Journal
- Paleobotanika
- Volume
- 10
- Page number
- 52
- Year
- 2019
- Fossil Status
- leafy twigs
- Stratigraphy
- Coniacian
- Strat. comment
- Chingandzha Formation
- Location
- northern coast of the Sea of Okhotsk, Kananyga River, Magadan region, Russian Federation
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Far East)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg, Russian Federation
- Repository Number
- BIN 1565/466a
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg, Russian Federation
- Repository Number
- BIN 538/138, shoot with pollen cones, pl. XXII, fig. 2; spec. BIN 1565/470, branch with short and long shoots, pl. XX, fig. 4, 5
- Diagnosis
- Long perennial shoots with helically arranged short shoots and rare short flat appressed
lanceolate leaves; short shoots 2–3 mm long and about 1,5 mm in diameter, diverging from the shoot at
an angle 40–50° and bearing several alternate, closely spaced leaf scars; ultimate annual shoots located on
short shoots in terminal position with helical or distichous leaf arrangement; leaves narrow and widely
spaced, flattened, linear, with acute apices, twisted in their basal parts, 12–25 mm long, 1–1,5 mm wide; leaf
bases narrowing into short petiole, decurrent to the shoot axis.
