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Nymphaea mesozoica
Nymphaea mesozoica Dobrusk. Cretac. Res., 18(1): 90. Feb 1997
- Name
- Nymphaea mesozoica
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Nymphaea
- Authors (Pub.)
- Dobruskina I. A.
- Publication
- Turonian plants from the southern Negev, Israel [1997/2]
- Journal
- Cretaceous Research
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 90
- Year
- 1997
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Turonian
- Location
- southern Negev, Gerofit valley, southern Israel
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Middle East)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- Repository Number
- T127
- Diagnosis
- Oval leaves with a cordate base ; petiole perpendicular to leaf lamina ,
the place of petiole attachment being prominent ; the margin is entire , undulate ,
or slightly denticulate with palmate venation . Seven to nine thick , first order veins
originate at the point of petiol attachment : one is central and there are three or
four lateral pairs . Several veins of second and third orders , of nearly the same
thickness , extend from these . Between them there are thin veins of a higher order
which form a reticulate venation .
