Wasmyflora E.M.Friis, P.R.Crane et K.R.Pedersen in Friis, Crane, Pedersen & Marone

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003121

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3121

Authors: E. M. Friis, P. R. Crane & K. R. Pedersen

Rank: genus

Reference for this name: Friis, E. M., Crane, P. R., Pedersen, K. R. & Marone, F. (2024): Cretaceous chloranthoids: early prominence, extinct diversity and missing links. – Annals of Botany 133: 225–260.

Page of description: 256

Type

Original diagnosis/description

Flower unisexual, epigynous. Tepals three, borne near the apex. Flower flattened in transverse section, with short hypanthial expansions over the two lateral ridges. Ovary inferior, unilocular. Ovule one, pendent, orthotropous, bitegmic. Exotegmen of inner integument (tegmen) of elongate, slightly
sclerotic cells. Hypanthium wall thin. Outer epidermis cells of hypanthium wall with strongly undulate anticlinal walls, each cell with a single papilla.

Etymology

Anagram of Swamyflora to indicate close similarity between the two genera.