Mugideiriflora portugallica E.M.Friis, P.R.Crane et K.R.Pedersen

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000907

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:907

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

Rank: species

Genus: Mugideiriflora E.M.Friis, P.R.Crane et K.R.Pedersen

Reference: Friis, E. M., Crane, P. R. & Pedersen, K. R. (2020): Multiparted, apocarpous flowers from the Early Cretaceous of eastern North America and Portugal. – Fossil Imprint 76(2): 279–296.

Page of description: 281

Illustrations or figures: text-figs 1a–f, 2a–g

Name is type for

Types

Original diagnosis/description

Flower structurally bisexual, with multiparted perianth, androecium and gynoecium. Floral receptacle flat to slightly concave but conical in the pistillate region. Phyllotaxis of floral organs apparently spiral. Perianth of about 50 tepals in several series. Tepals broad with transversely elongate and rhomboidal bases. Androecium of more than 50 stamens in several series. Stamens with short bases, poorly differentiated from the anther, rhomboidal in transverse section. Anthers dithecate and tetrasporangiate with an expanded and slightly pointed connective apex. Pollen sacs in a lateral position. Gynoecium superior, apocarpous, of more than 50 free carpels borne in several series on the conical gynoecial portion of the receptacle.

Etymology

From Portugal where the fossil was collected.

Stratigraphy

Cretaceous, Lower Cretaceous
Almargem Formation, Early Cretaceous (Aptian-early Albian)

Locality

Portugal
Catefica (39° 03′ 16″ N, 09° 14′ 24″ W), between the villages of Catefica and Mugideira, about 4 km south of Torres Vedras