Acorites heeri (E.W.Berry) Crepet

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000034

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:34

Author: W. L. Crepet

Rank: species

Basionym: Acorus heeri E.W.Berry

Genus: Acorites Crepet

Reference: Crepet, W. L. (1978): Investigations of angiosperms from the Eocene of North America: an aroid inflorescence. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 25: 241–252.

Page of description: 250

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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