Zingiberopsis L.Hickey

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000836

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:836

Author: L. Hickey

Rank: genus

Reference: Hickey, Leo J. (1977): Stratigraphy and paleobotany of the Golden Valley Formation (Early Tertiary) of western North Dakota. – Memoirs of the Geological Society of America 150: 1–181, 55 pls.

Page of description: 115

Type

Original diagnosis/description

Leaves large, elliptic to ovate; apex acuminate; margin entire; midrib extends no more than three-fourths of the way to the apex; secondaries all of equal thickness, numerous, closely spaced, parallel, and diverging from the midvein at acute angles; tertiary veins thin, connecting two adjacent secondaries, and relatively distant in their spacing.