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Khitania
Genus Khitania S.-X. Guo, Sha, L.-Z. Bian, Qiu J. Syst. Evol., 47(2): 94. 1 Mar 2009
- Name
- Khitania
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Guo S.-X.
Sha J.-G.
Bian L.-Z.
Qiu Y.-L.
- Publication
- Male spike strobiles with Gnetum affinity from the Early Cretaceous in western Liaoning, Northeast China [2009/3]
- Journal
- Journal of systematics and evolution
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 94
- Year
- 2009
- Parent Taxon
- [Family] Gnetaceae
- Fossil Status
- strobili (male)
- Type
- Khitania columnispicata
- Diagnosis
- Two elongate-cylindrical male spikelike strobiles (microsporangiate axes), which with two invisible peduncles borne within a cupular bract of swollen node on cauliflorous branch. Male strobiles with many nodes and invisible internodes, and numerous verticillate annular involucral collars, which formed by the fusion of verticillate bracts on nodes of spike, involucral collars close arrangement, margin entire or somewhat undulation. Microsporangiate units (sessile male “flowers”) within involucral collars indiscernible, their number and arrangement unknown (probably one row or two in arrangement).
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