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Woodwardia bennettii
Woodwardia bennettii Dorf Publ. Carnegie Inst. Washington, 412: 68. Oct 1930
- Name
- Woodwardia bennettii
- Rank
- Species
- Original spelling
- bennetti
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Woodwardia
- Authors (Pub.)
- Dorf E.
- Publication
- Pliocene floras of California [1930/10]
- Journal
- Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
- Volume
- 412
- Page number
- 68
- Year
- 1930
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Woodwardia
- Fossil Status
- foliage
- Stratigraphy
- Pliocene
- Location
- Bennett Valley, California, USA
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Repository Number
- 303
- Diagnosis
- Fronds probably at least pinnate and the pinnre pinnatifid; shape of pinnre evidently long and lanceolate; pinnules equal or subequal in both size and shape, sub-falcate, disjointed to almost their entire length, separated by long, narrow sinuses; narrowly lanceolate, apparently entire ; length of pinnules 23 to 26 mm., width 7 to 8 mm. in the center, tapering gradually to broad, decurrent bases and acute points; midrib prominent, distinct to the points, curving slightly upward; secondary venation indistinct, yet showing clearly a row of long, narrow areoles on each side of and parallel to the midrib of the pinnules; outside of these the finer veins diverging obliquely from the borders of the areoles, anastomosing toward the margin, forming irregular meshes.
