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Glochidion palaeogamblei
Glochidion palaeogamblei A.M. Khan, S.K. Bera in C. Panda, C. Ghosh Divers. Conserv. Pl. Trad. Knowl. 152. 2012
- Name
- Glochidion palaeogamblei
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Glochidion
- Authors (Pub.)
- Khan A. M.
Bera S. K.
- Publication
- Glochidion palaeogamblei sp. nov. - a new fossil leaf of Euphorbiaceae from the Pliocene sediments of Arunachal Pradesh, North-Eastern India and its palaeoclimatic significance [2012]
- Authors (Book)
- Panda C.
Ghosh C.
- Book
- Diversity and Conservation of Plants and Traditional Knowledge
- Page number
- 152
- Year
- 2012
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Pliocene
- Strat. comment
- Subansiri Formation
- Location
- at the road-cutting, Bhalukpong area opposite to Jangchip chorten (near culvert no. 48/1) of West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh, North-Eastern India
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Indostan)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Botany Department, University of Kolkata, Kolkata, India
- Repository Number
- CUH/PPL/B/60 (CUH)
- Diagnosis
- Leaf simple, symmetrical, narrow elliptic; preserved lamina length 3.9 cm and maximum width 4.8 cm, entire, acuminate, base acute; texture
chartaceous; petiole not preserved; venation pinnate, simple, eucamptodromous; primary vein prominent, stout, almost straight; seven pairs of secondary veins visible, alternate, 0.4 - 0.6 cm apart; gradually curved, angle of divergence acute (about 60o), more or less uniform, moderately thick, unbranched; tertiary veins with angle of origin mostly RR, percurrent, straight to sinuous, branched, oblique in relation to midvein, predominantly alternate and close.
