Acrogenotheca Naugolnykh

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN001914

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:1914

Authors: S. V. Naugolnykh

Rank: genus

Reference: Naugolnykh, S. V. (2013): Permian Ferns of Western Angaraland. – Paleontological Journal 47(12): 1379–1462., link

Page of description: 1388

Type taxon

Original protologue

Fertile pinnules without leaf lamina, possessing radially symmetrical synangia composed of four sporangia almost completely fused by their margins. Each synangium having basal blister. Spores monolete, with smooth sporoderm.

Etymology

From the Latin acrogenus (formed at the top).