Nicholsia E.M.Friis, P.R.Crane et K.R.Pedersen

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000497

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:497

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

Rank: genus

Reference: Friis, E. M., Crane, P. R. & Pedersen, K. R. (2019): The Early Cretaceous mesofossil flora of Torres Vedras (NE of Forte da Forca), Portugal: a palaeofloristic analysis of an early angiosperm community. – Fossil Imprint 75(2): 153–257.

Page of description: 236

Type

Original diagnosis/description

Pollen small, prolate, tricolpate. Colpi short. Tectum foveolate to microreticulate. Perforations rounded and of even size over the main body of the grains.
Colpus margin indistinct. Colpus membrane verrucate.

Etymology

In honor of the American palynologist Douglas J. Nichols in recognition of his important contributions to the study of Cretaceous angiosperms.