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

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000493

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:493

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: 232

Type

Original diagnosis/description

Pollen, small, almost spherical, tricolpate. Colpi long, reaching almost to the poles sometimes separated by irregular folds. Exine tectate-punctate in the polar regions and along the colpi; tectate-foveolate to reticulate in mesocolpial regions. Columellae short. Colpus margin distinct. Colpus membrane verrucate. Orbicules small, spherical with faintly striate surface.

Etymology

In honor of the British palynologist Audrey B. McDougall in recognition of her contribution to the study of Early Cretaceous angiosperms.