Acorus heeri E.W.Berry

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000033

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:33

Author: E. W. Berry

Rank: species

Reference: Berry, E. W. (1930): Revision of the lower Eocene Wilcox flora of the Southeastern States. – Professional Papers, United States Geological Survey 156: 1–196, 50 pls., link

Page of description: 55

Illustrations or figures: pl. 8, fig. 7

Name is type for

Other combinations

Acorites heeri (E.W.Berry) Crepet 1978

Types

Holotype USNM 39739, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States
Figures: pl. 8, fig. 7

Note: Inventory number and repository according to Crepet, W. L. (1978: Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 25: 250).

Original diagnosis/description

Scape slender, slightly over 1 millimeter in width; apparently angled, but this feature is somewhat problematic. Inflorescence distinctly pedunculate, about
1.4 centinleters in length and 3 millimeters in maximum diameter, bluntly rounded distad and somewhat tapering proximad. The specimen is unfortunately broken away about 2 millimeters above the attachment of the spadix, so that it can not be determined whether the spathe was a narrow contitiumtion of the scape and not obviously differentiated, as in the existing species of Acorus, or whether it expanded, as in most modern Araceae. Scape preserved for a distance of 2.2 centimeters.

Stratigraphy

Paleogene, Eocene

Locality

United States
Holly Springs sand, road west of La Grange, Fayette County, TN

Plant fossil remain

macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood

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