Acorites Crepet
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000030
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:30
Author: W. L. Crepet
Rank: genus
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
Type
Acorus heeri E.W.Berry
Original diagnosis/description
Small spadices, 12 mm × 3 mm with a short stalk lacking a subtending spathe, bearing helically arranged perfect florets with bilocular anthers, trilocular ovaries and small orbicular stigmas. Floral envelope epidermis with paracytic stomata. Stalk epidermis of polygonal cells with thick anticlinal walls and no specific orientation, stomata infrequent or missing.
Plant fossil remain
macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood
Names associated with genus
Acorites heeri (E.W.Berry) Crepet 1978
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