Passiflora appalachiana

Name

Passiflora appalachiana

Rank

Species

Generic Name

[Genus] Passiflora

Authors (Pub.)

Hermsen E. J.  

Publication

Review of the fossil record of Passiflora, with a description of new seeds from the Pliocene Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee, USA [2021/5]

Journal

International Journal of Plant Sciences

Volume

182

Issue

6

Page number

000 [10] 543

Year

2021

Fossil Status

seeds

Stratigraphy

Zanclean

Location

Gray Fossil Site (GFS), eastern Tennessee, USA

Paleoregion

America (North)

Data for Holotypus

Repository

Natural History Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, USA

Repository Number

ETMNH22625

Num

figs. 5A, 5B

Pub.

Review of the fossil record of Passiflora, with a description of new seeds from the Pliocene Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee, USA [2021/5]

Data for Paratypus

Repository

Natural History Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, USA

Repository Number

ETMNH 21283, 22626–22636

Num

figs. 5C–5L

Pub.

Review of the fossil record of Passiflora, with a description of new seeds from the Pliocene Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee, USA [2021/5]

Diagnosis

Seed obovate, slightly asymmetrical, 5.7–6.3 mm long, 3.9–4.3 mm wide, and 2.6–2.9 mm thick; apical appendage conspicuous and triangular, base of appendage encircled by a collar; base of seed truncate, oblique, unlobed, often with centralmucro; seed surface reticulate-foveolate;margin entire.