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Stockeystrobus interdigitatus
Stockeystrobus interdigitatus G.W. Rothwell, Ohana Bot. (Canada), 94(9): 850. 15 Sep 2016
- Name
- Stockeystrobus interdigitatus
- Rank
- Species
- Original spelling
- interdigitata
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Stockeystrobus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Rothwell G. W.
Ohana T.
- Publication
- Stockeystrobus gen. nov. (Cupressaceae), and the evolutionary diversification of sequoioid conifer seed cones [2016/9]
- Journal
- Botany
- Volume
- 94
- Issue
- 9
- Page number
- 850
- Year
- 2016
- Fossil Status
- cones (female)
- Stratigraphy
- Coniacian
- Strat. comment
- Coniacian-Santonian: Upper Yezo Group
- Location
- Stream bed near Tappu, Obira-cho, Rumoigun on the Japanese Island of Hokkaido, Japan
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Japanese Archipelago)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- National Museum of Nature and Science, Palaeobotany Collection, Tokyo, Japan
- Repository Number
- NSM PP-9373
- Diagnosis
- Cone >4.7 cm long, 2.7 cm in diameter;
woody axis with complete cylinder of secondary xylem,
scattered sclereids in parenchymatous pith; cortical resin
canals absent. Complex ground tissue parenchymatous,
with numerous resin rodlets, abaxially positioned resin canals
in peltate head; abaxial hypodermis of closely spaced
parenchyma and sclerotic bundles. Conspicuous epidermal
cells elongating at lateral margins of bract–scale head to
form interdigitating trichomes. Seeds 6–8 per bract–scale
complex, disc-shaped with broad wing surrounding body.
