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Prisca
Genus Prisca Retallack, Dilcher Palaeontographica, Abt. B, Paläophytol., 179(5-6): 107. Nov 1981
- Name
- Prisca
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Retallack G.
Dilcher D. L.
- Publication
- Early angiosperm reproduction: Prisca reynoldsii gen. et sp. nov. from Mid-Cretaceous coastal deposits in Kansas, USA [1981/11]
- Journal
- Palaeontographica
- Volume
- 179
- Issue
- 5-6
- Page number
- 107
- Year
- 1981
- Parent Taxon
- [Family] Priscaceae
- Fossil Status
- inflorescences
- Type
- Prisca reynoldsii
- Diagnosis
- Lax, fnliting racemes of alternately and distantly-arranged multifolLicles; multifollicles elongate, consisting of slender pedicel and receptacle, subtended by small, stem-clasping bracts; bracts with subacute apex and open, reticulate venation; receptacles elongate, flexuous, bearing numerous helically-arranged follicles; follicles with commissure directed adaxially, subcarnose, globular to ellipsoidal when involute, suh· rectangular with two lateral sinuses and prominent marginal involution when open; seeds numerous, ellipsoidal, orthottopous, bitegmic, smooth, attached by shon funicle to involute follicle margin, directed obliquely towards apex and interior of follicle. Cutic:
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