Cruciptera Manchester
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003665
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3665
Author: S. R. Manchester
Rank: genus
Reference for this name: Manchester, S. R. (1991): Cruciptera, a new Juglandaceous winged fruit from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America. – Systematic Botany 16(4): 715–725.
Page of description: 719
Original diagnosis/description
Fruit a samara, consisting of a globose nutlet adjoined equatorially by 4 (rarely 5 or 6) conspicuous elongate-spatulate wings with subparallel dichotomizing venation. Four free, persistent, sepals arise from the apical 1/3 of the nutlet and surround 2 elongate style arms. Nutlet unilocular, with the seed 4-lobed basally due to the presence of incomplete primary and secondary septa.
Plant fossil remain
macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood
Names associated with genus
Cruciptera simsonii (R.W.Br.) Manchester 1991
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