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Entada simojovelensis
Entada simojovelensis Estrada-Ruiz, Gómez-Acevedo J. S. Amer. Earth Sci., 129(104499): 3. 27 Jul 2023
- Name
- Entada simojovelensis
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Entada
- Authors (Pub.)
- Estrada-Ruiz E.
Gómez-Acevedo S. L.
- Publication
- New fossil species of Entada genus (Fabaceae, Caesalpinioideae, mimosoid clade) from the Miocene amber of Chiapas, Mexico [2023/7]
- Journal
- Journal of South American Earth Sciences
- Volume
- 129
- Issue
- 104499
- Page number
- 3
- Year
- 2023
- Fossil Status
- flowers (bisexual)
- Stratigraphy
- Chattian
- Strat. comment
- Simojovel Formation
- Location
- Montecristo mines, municipality of Simojovel de Allende, Chiapas (17◦7′ 45.99″ N, 92◦41′43″ W), Mexico
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Colección de Paleobotánica, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México, México
- Repository Number
- IPN-PAL 19
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- Colección de Paleobotánica, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México, México
- Repository Number
- IPN-PAL 20a-d
- Diagnosis
- Bisexual flowers, small, five sepals, synsepalous, pubescent, toothed. Petals basally connate, narrow linear-lanceolate in shape, raised midvein with reticulate venation, and an acute papillate apex. Androecium composed of 10 stamens, free, filaments thin and large; anthers rectangular shape, dorsifixed; the anthers have one gland, regular sculpturing, Piptadenia type (subtype Entada). Gynoecium subsessile, superior ovary, style tapering to a punctiform stigma.
