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

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000461

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:461

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: 195

Type

Original diagnosis/description

Stamens short, broad, dithecate and tetrasporangiate. Inner surface of anther wall with densely arranged orbicules. Orbicules small, spherical with
microechinate surface. Pollen small, oblate, circular to elliptical in equatorial outline, monocolpate with a simple colpus. Exine tectate with a smooth to slightly rugulate surface. Supratectal ornamentation microechinate, composed of solitary microechinae. Infratectal layer granular. Colpus margin irregular, distinct.

Etymology

In honor of the Hungarian palynologist Ferenc Góczan in recognition of his important contribution to Cretaceous palynology.