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Nuphar carlquistii
Nuphar carlquistii DeVore, Wi. Taylor, Pigg Int. J. Pl. Sci., 176(4): 372. May 2015
- Name
- Nuphar carlquistii
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Nuphar
- Authors (Pub.)
- DeVore M. L.
Taylor W.
Pigg K. B.
- Publication
- Nuphar carlquistii sp. nov. (Nymphaeaceae): a water lily from the Latest Early Eocene, Republic, Washington [2015/5]
- Journal
- International Journal of Plant Sciences
- Volume
- 176
- Issue
- 4
- Page number
- 372
- Year
- 2015
- Fossil Status
- fruits
- Stratigraphy
- Ypresian
- Strat. comment
- 49.42-50.54 Ma by 40Ar-39Ar dating / Tom Thumb Unit, Klondike Mountain Formation
- Location
- Boot Hill, Republic (Ferry County), Washington, USA
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Stonerose InterpretiveCenter, Republic, USA
- Repository Number
- SR 02-17-03AB
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- Stonerose InterpretiveCenter, Republic, USA
- Repository Number
- Fruits: SR 02-30-25B (fig. 2A) and SR 02-30-
25A (fig. 2C, 2D); SR 10-43-08
(fig. 4D–4H); SR 95-15-10 (not
figured); SR 95-17-08 (not figured).
Seeds: SR 05-15-30 (fig. 2B);
SR 01-03-20 (fig. 2I); SR 06-
12-01 (fig. 2E, 2H); SR 06-12-02A
(fig. 2K, 2L); SR 06-24-01
(fig. 2G), SR 06-34-09 (fig. 3E, 3F).
Seed masses: SR 99-15-12 (fig. 3A, 3D); Burke Museum of Natural History and
Culture, University of Washington, Seattle: 36804 (fig. 3B, 3G), SR 06-34-09 (fig. 3E,
3F). Seeds not figured: SR 08-09-
19; SR 09-09-03; SR 06-12-03 AB;
SR 09-36-01AB; SR 13-006-009.
- Diagnosis
- Fruits 2.5–3 cm across, tapering basally
to around 2 cm across; surrounded by around five persistent
tepals, tepals 1.4 cm long#1 cm at widest area, ovoid,
tapering apically, ground tissue of tepals containing many
large (0.8–1 mm) and small (0.1–0.2 mm) clusters of sclereids;
fruit wall up to 2.5 mm thick, parenchymatous with
numerous small astrosclereids scattered throughout; at least
16 stamens present, stamens laminar, up to 7 mm long (incomplete)
and 1 mm across; seed masses containing several
hundred seeds embedded in compact matrix; seeds 4–5 mm
long # 3–4 mm wide; oval to barrel shaped, anatropous,
operculate; prominent raphe ridge along one margin; seed
coat of small pentagonal cells with straight anticlinal cell
margins.
