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Bevhalstia pebja
Bevhalstia pebja C.R. Hill Cretac. Res., 17(1): 28. Feb 1996
- Name
- Bevhalstia pebja
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Bevhalstia
- Authors (Pub.)
- Hill C. R.
- Publication
- A plant with flower-like organs from the Wealden of the Weald (Lower Cretaceous), southern England [1996/2]
- Journal
- Cretaceous Research
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 28
- Year
- 1996
- Fossil Status
- leafy stems
- Stratigraphy
- Hauterivian
- Strat. comment
- Near top of Lower Weald Clay Formation
- Location
- Keymer Tileworks, East Sussex, England, U.K.
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Europe)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton, U.K.
- Repository Number
- Specimen BMB 020908 /-9
- Diagnosis
- Weakly constructed , parenchymatous leafy stems which branch
frequently . Each long and / or short lateral branch subtended by elongate ,
downturned , basal ‘bracts’ , and growing singly or multiply in a distinctive ,
monochasially cymose branching pattern ; some shoots with axillary or terminal
flower-like structures , apparently radial and comprising curved ‘tepals’ or bracts ,
which may bear a superior , axial , ovary-like mass with a small , blunt , stigma- or
corona-like projection . Foliage leaves diminutive , often plicate and mainly
flabellate , sometimes filiform and reduced . Leaves palmate , two- or three-lobed
with one order of dichotomizing , non-reticulate veins ; attachment to shoots in a
characteristic two-ranked , occasionally decussate , arrangement .
