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Entada awasthii
Entada awasthii R.K. Saxena, Doweld, Mah. Prasad Geophytology, 56(1): 2026
- Name
- Entada awasthii
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Entada
- Authors (Pub.)
- Saxena R. K.
Doweld A. B.
Prasad M.
- Publication
- New names of fossil plant species, assigned to extant genera, from the Tertiary sediments of India and Nepal [2026]
- Journal
- Geophytology
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 1
- Year
- 2026
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Tortonian
- Strat. comment
- Chor Khola Formation / 9-10 Mya
- Location
- Woodseam, Surai Khola area, western Nepal
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Indostan)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India
- Repository Number
- BSIP 36504
- Diagnosis
- Leaflet simple, almost symmetrical, elliptic, preserved length and width 5.2 × 2.6 cm; apex missing; base slightly incomplete, probably acute; margin entire; texture chartaceous; petiole missing, venation pinnate, semicraspedodromous; primary vein prominent, moderate in thickness, almost straight; secondary veins about 8–9 pairs visible, mostly alternate, nearly straight, branching just within the margin, one of the branches seemingly terminating at the margin and the other joining superadjacent secondary, angle of divergence acute (about 60–70°), moderate in thickness; intersecondary veins present, simple, abundant, tertiary veins fine, with angle of origin AR–RO, ramified, branched, oblique to right angle in relation to mid-vein, alternate and close.
