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Yuhania
Genus Yuhania Z.-J. Liu, X. Wang Historical Biol., 2017, 29(4): 432. 4 May 2016
- Name
- Yuhania
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Liu Z.-J.
Wang X.
- Publication
- Yuhania: a unique angiosperm from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China [2016/5]
- Journal
- Historical biology
- Annee/Jahrgang
- 2017
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 4
- Page number
- 432
- Year
- 2016
- Parent Taxon
- [Class] Magnoliopsida
- Fossil Status
- leafy stems (with reproductive organs)
- Type
- Yuhania daohugouensis
- Diagnosis
- Plant including connected stem, leaves, flowers, aggregate fruits, fruitlets, and seeds in fruitlets. Stem curving,
with longitudinal ridges and hairs. Leaves linear, probably spirally arranged, clasping the stem, entire margined,
with an acute tip and five to six (rarely seven) parallel veins. Flowers unisexual, female, axillary, including
carpels helically arranged along an axis. The carpels
rhomboidal-shaped in early stages. Aggregate fruit
pedicellate, with helically arranged fruitlets and bracts. Each fruitlet with a cuspidate or rounded tip, enclosing a seed.
Seed inserted on the floral axis, on the abaxial of the enclosing
foliar part.
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