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Trapa szaferiorum
Trapa szaferiorum Wójcicki Atlas Pleist. Vasc. Pl. Macrofoss. Eur., (2): 78. 30 Dec 2008
- Name
- Trapa szaferiorum
- Rank
- Species
- Original spelling
- szaferiana
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Trapa
- Authors (Pub.)
- Wójcicki J. J.
- Publication
- Trapaceae [2008/12]
- Book
- Atlas of the Pleistocene vascular plant macrofossils of Central and Eastern Europe
- Fascicle
- 2
- Page number
- 78
- Year
- 2008
- Fossil Status
- fruits
- Stratigraphy
- Middle Pleistocene
- Location
- Prinemanskaja (= Zhidovshchizna) village, Hrodno region, Belarus
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Europe)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Instytut Botaniki im. W. Szafera, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
- Repository Number
- KRAM-P Q-61/8/1
- Diagnosis
- Endocarps of small size, transversely rhombic in outline, with two pairs of horns; endocarp 11–13 mm long (including neck), width of endocarp at the level of upper horns 19–24 mm; endocarp about 1.8 times as wide as long; endocarp head pronounced, its upper end located just below the line joining the slightly raised bases of the upper horns, bearing a well-developed neck; neck 1.5–2.0 mm long and 3–4 mm broad, corona well-developed, somewhat rectangular in outline, with protruding margins; surface of endocarp head and neck fi nely ribbed; upper horns solid, 6–10 mm long, triangular in outline, their sloping bases abruptly narrowing into almost horizontal or gently retrorse arms shortly sharpened at apex, middle part of their adaxial surface depressed; lower horns at least 3 mm long, slightly retrorse, probably shortly sharpened at apex, triangular in outline, inserted approximately in ⅓–½ of the way from the endocarp base to apex; small cavity at the adaxial base of the lower horn usually present; endocarp frame well-developed, bearing small, conical tubercles up to 0.5 mm long between the bases of the upper and lower horns; lower part of the endocarp body shallowly obtriangular in outline, usually slightly truncate at base, its surface, on one side only, covered with fi ve protruding longitudinal ribs; endocarp base with a smooth thin ring, up to 1 mm high; basal scar up to 1 mm in diameter.
