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Strychnos electri
Strychnos electri Poinar, Struwe Nature Plants, 2(16005): 1. 15 Feb 2016
- Name
- Strychnos electri
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Strychnos
- Authors (Pub.)
- Poinar G. O.
Struwe L.
- Publication
- An asterid flower from neotropical mid-Tertiary amber [2016/2]
- Journal
- Nature Plants
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 16005
- Page number
- 1
- Year
- 2016
- Fossil Status
- flowers
- Stratigraphy
- Cenozoic
- Strat. comment
- El Mamey Formation (45–15 Myr)
- Location
- Municipality of Santiago de los Caballeros between Puerto Plata
and Santiago, La Búcara amber mine, 19.34° N, 71.23° W, Province of Santiago, Dominican Republic
- Paleoregion
- America (Caribbean)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA
- Repository Number
- Type collection cat. no. 73176, G. Poinar no. Sd-9-47A, 1988
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA
- Repository Number
- Type collection cat. no. 73631, G. Poinar no. Sd-9-47B, 1988
- Diagnosis
- Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, 5-merous. Corolla
sympetalous, trumpet-shaped, 8.7−9.0 mm long, abaxially densely
tomentose with non-branched, wool-like trichomes, adaxially glabrous
in mouth; tube 4.8 mm× 2.6−3.3 mm (upper width), gradually
narrowing towards the base; lobes spreading to reflexed, triangularovate,
1.3−1.6 × 1.1−1.3 mm, valvate, reflexed, densely tomentose
on outside, without pubescence in corolla mouth or on inside of
corolla lobes, apex acute. Stamens equal in number to and alternate
with corolla lobes, inserted in corolla lobe sinuses, partially exserted
from corolla mouth; anthers sessile, bilocular, longitudinally introrse,
obovate, 0.6−0.8 mm long, sagittate, apex rounded to bluntly acute,
bases acute; pollen spherical, 12−18 μm in diameter. Ovary not seen; style one, simple, filamentous, exserted from corolla (at least
8−10 mm long past corolla lobes); stigma capitate.
