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Eriospermocormus indicus
Eriospermocormus indicus Bonde Cretac. Res., 26(2): 198. Apr 2005
- Name
- Eriospermocormus indicus
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Eriospermocormus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Bonde S. D.
- Publication
- Eriospermocormus indicus gen. et sp. nov. (Liliales: Eriospermaceae): first record of a monocotyledonous corm from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of India [2005/4]
- Journal
- Cretaceous Research
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 198
- Year
- 2005
- Fossil Status
- stems
- Stratigraphy
- Maastrichtian
- Strat. comment
- Deccan Intertrappean
- Location
- Nawargaon, Wardha District, Maharashtra, India
- Paleoregion
- Gondwana (Indostan)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India
- Repository Number
- N 202/98, Slides 1-6
- Diagnosis
- Permineralized, globose, vertically and laterally compressed nontunicate, unconstricted globose corm, 2.5!2.8 cm in diameter and 4.0 cm in height.
Nodes and internodes present. Roots in rings restricted to internodes. Periderm and cortex thin, vascular region wide. Cortex with abundant mucilage cavities and a few fibre and fibrovascular bundles. Vascular region with a compact arrangement of normal fibrovascular bundles, amphivasal bundles and fibre bundles. Fibrovascular bundles of two types: (1) round to oval with complanata type of sclerenchyma and (2) radially elongated with lunate or reniform sclerenchyma. Amphivasal bundles round to oval with vaginate sclerenchyma and metaxylem vessels in a circle around the phloem. Ground tissue aerenchymatous.
