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Lijinganthus
Genus Lijinganthus Z.-J. Liu, D.-Y. Huang, Chen-Y. Cai, X. Wang Sci. Rep. (Nature), 8(16765): 2. 13 Nov 2018
- Name
- Lijinganthus
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Liu Z.-J.
Huang D.-Y.
Cai C.-Y.
Wang X.
- Publication
- The core eudicot boom registered in Myanmar amber [2018/11]
- Journal
- Scientific reports
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 16765
- Page number
- 2
- Year
- 2018
- Parent Taxon
- [Class] Magnoliopsida
- Fossil Status
- flowers
- Type
- Lijinganthus revolutus
- Diagnosis
- Flower actinomorphic, bisexual, with one whorl of five sepals, one whorl of five petals, androecium, and gynoecium. The calyx consisting of five distinct, small sepals with entire margins and rounded apices. The corolla consisting of five distinct, large, elongated oval, entire-margined revolute petals with rounded apices, alternating with the sepals. Androecium diplostemonous, filamentous. The anthers bisporangiate, introrse, dorsifixed, dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Nectary disk at the base of the gynoecium. The gynoecium tricarpous, lacking an obvious style and probably with axile placentation.
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