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

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003122

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3122

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

Rank: species

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

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

Illustrations or figures: fig. 14

Name is type for

Types

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

From Portugal, where the fossil was recovered.

Stratigraphy

Cretaceous, Lower Cretaceous, Albian
Barremian–Aptian.

Locality

United States
Vale de Água clay pit complex, western Portugal (39°37ʹ15″N, 8°51ʹ30″W).