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Hydnocarpus ghishiensis
Hydnocarpus ghishiensis Mah. Prasad, Kannaujia, Alok, S.K. Singh Palaeobotanist, 64(1–2): 24. 31 Dec 2015
- Name
- Hydnocarpus ghishiensis
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Hydnocarpus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Prasad M.
Kannaujia A. K.
Alok
Singh S. K.
- Publication
- Plant megaflora from the Siwalik (Upper Miocene) of Darjeeling District, West Bengal, India and its palaeoclimatic and phytogeographic significance [2015/12]
- Journal
- Palaeobotanist
- Volume
- 64
- Issue
- 1–2
- Page number
- 24
- Year
- 2015
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Tortonian
- Strat. comment
- Geabdat Sandstone Formation (Middle Siwalik); Upper Miocene (Sarmatian to Pontian).
- Location
- Ghish River Section, Oodlabari area, Darjeeling District, West Bengal, India
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Indostan)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India
- Repository Number
- 40330
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India
- Repository Number
- 40331 [pl. 6: 2], 40332
- Diagnosis
- Leaf simple, symmetrical, narrow elliptic; preserved size 9.8 x 3.7 cm, 9.4 x 3.6 cm and 8.4 x 4.4 cm; apex broken seemingly acute; base wide acute, normal; margin entire; texture chartaceous; venation pinnate; eucamptodromous to brochidodromous; primary vein single, prominent, almost straight, stout; secondary veins 6–7 pairs visible, 1.4 to 2.6 cm apart, usually alternate, unbranched, angle of divergence (45º–50°), narrow acute, basal secondary veins with greater angle, uniformly curved up and joined to their superadjacent secondaries; intersecondary veins present, simple; tertiary veins fine, angle of origin usually RR, percurrent, straight to sometimes curved, branched, oblique to right angle in relation to mid vein, predominantly alternate and close.
