Androstrobus Schimp.
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN001296
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:1296
Author: W. P. Schimper
Rank: genus
Reference: Schimper, W. P. (1870): Traité de Paléontologie Végétale, ou la Flore de Monde primitif dans ses rapports avec les formations géologiques et la flore du monde actuel. J. B. Baillière et Fils, Paris; Baillière, Tindall and Cox, Londres; Carlos Bailly-Baillière, Madrid 2(1): 1–520., link
Page of description: 199
Type
Androstrobus zamioides Saporta ex Schimp.
Original diagnosis/description
Amenta cycadeacea antherifera, cylindrica, c squamis imbricatis, latere postico antheras sessiles ferentibus efformata.
Emended diagnosis
Deng et al. (2014: J. Syst. Palaeontol., 12(8): 1009):
Microsporangiate strobilus with stout peduncle bearing spirally arranged, coriaceous microsporophylls. Distally, microsporophyll apices incurved and rhomboidal to rounded-rhomboidal in shape, imbricate. Microsporangia borne on distal surface of microsporophylls. Cuticle and pollen unknown.
Plant fossil remain
macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood
Names associated with genus
Androstrobus zamioides Saporta ex Schimp. 1870
Androstrobus obovatus Bodnar, E.M.Morel, Coturel et Ganuza 2020
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