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Botryopteris fecunda
Botryopteris fecunda Mamay Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard., 37(3): 414. 30 Sep 1950
- Name
- Botryopteris fecunda
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Botryopteris
- Authors (Pub.)
- Mamay S. H.
- Publication
- Some American Carboniferous fern fructifications [1950/9]
- Journal
- Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 3
- Page number
- 414
- Year
- 1950
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Botryopteris
- Fossil Status
- sporangia
- Stratigraphy
- Moscovian
- Location
- Urbandale Mine, Iowa, USA
- Paleoregion
- Laurussia (Laurentia)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository Number
- 1676-1680
- Diagnosis
- Sporangia borne in compact terminal clusters of 5 to 20 each, pedicellate, ovoid-ellipsoid, reaching .45 mm. in length and .25 mm. in width. Largest cells of annulus averaging 50 X 50 μ, in transverse dimensions. Spores radial, trilete, averaging 36 μ, along the base of each triangular commissural surface, and with pronounced triradiate ridges; spore walls finely reticulate, with thin, translucent areolae.
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