Trapa mohgaoensis

Name

Trapa mohgaoensis

Rank

Species

Generic Name

[Genus] Trapa

Authors (Pub.)

Paradkar S. A. Patki S. P.  

Publication

Trapa mohgaoensis, a new petrified dicotyledonous fruit from Deccan Intertrappean beds of Mohgaonkalan, M. P., India [1987/7]

Journal

Geophytology

Volume

17

Issue

1

Page number

25

Year

1987

Fossil Status

fruits

Stratigraphy

Maastrichtian

Strat. comment

Deccan Intertrappean

Location

Mohgaonkalan, District Chhindwara, Madhya Pralesh, India

Paleoregion

Gondwana (Indostan)

Data for Holotypus

Repository

Institute of Science, Department of Botany, Nagpur, India

Repository Number

TRA/PAT 1

Num

1: 1-9; text-fig. 1-10

Pub.

Trapa mohgaoensis, a new petrified dicotyledonous fruit from Deccan Intertrappean beds of Mohgaonkalan, M. P., India [1987/7]

Diagnosis

Fruit is dicotyledonous, compressed, turbinate, coriaceous, one seeded, drupaceous and indehiscent, 2-3 spines with barbs, fruit wall shows 3 zones. Outer zone cells oval, parenchymatous arranged as aerenchyma, middle zone consists of sclerenchyma and inner zone parenchymatous, seed large, oval, nonendospermic, hypostase present. Embryo pseudomonocotyledonous with one large cotyledon and other scale-like or reduced.