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Osmundites braziliensis
Osmundites braziliensis H.N. Andrews Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 77(1): 32. 1960
- Name
- Osmundites braziliensis
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Osmundites
- Authors (Pub.)
- Andrews H. N.
- Publication
- A fossil osmundaceous tree-fern from Brazil [1960]
- Journal
- Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club
- Volume
- 77
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 32
- Year
- 1960
- Fossil Status
- stems
- Stratigraphy
- Permian
- Location
- Municipio de Rio Pardo, Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Paleoregion
- Gondwana (South America)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Henry Shaw School of Botany, St. Louis, USA
- Repository Number
- 5035
- Diagnosis
- An arborescent plant; pith probably parenchymatous; stele with outside diameterof 26 mm., composed of about 22 segments; leaf traces at point of departure open C-shaped becoming V-shaped toward the periphery of the cortex, ends of the traces with an "island" in the tracheids probably occupied in life by parenchymatous tissue.
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