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Achaenocarpites capitellatus
Achaenocarpites capitellatus Krassilov, Volynets Acta Palaeobot., 48(2): 152. 22 Dec 2008
- Name
- Achaenocarpites capitellatus
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Achaenocarpites
- Authors (Pub.)
- Krassilov V. A.
Volynets E. B.
- Publication
- Weedy Albian angiosperms [2008/12]
- Journal
- Acta Palaeobotanica
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 152
- Year
- 2008
- Fossil Status
- stems (with reproductive organs)
- Stratigraphy
- Albian
- Strat. comment
- Kangaus Formation
- Location
- Bol'shoy Kuvshin Inlet near Bol'shoy Kamen’ village, Primorye territory, Russian Federation
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Far East)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russian Federation
- Repository Number
- 320-9A
- Diagnosis
- Rhizome sympodially branched, bearing tubers and fi liform adventitious roots. Leafy stems not sharply delimited from the rhizomatous part, slender, with one or a few pairs of cauline leaves and a solitary terminal fl ower. Leaves stipulate, basically ternate, pinnatisect or 3-lobed, the larger ones with additional proximal lobes. Flower small, actinomorphic, monochlamydeous, developing into a head of achenes, with tepals partly persistent at fruit. Achenes numerous, obovate, minutely mucronate. Seed descending from apical region of achene, anatropous with a distinct raphe.
