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

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000495

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:495

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: 233

Type

Original diagnosis/description

Pollen of medium size, prolate, tricolpate. Colpi long, reaching almost to the poles, irregular in organization, sometimes branched. Exine columellate,
tectate-punctate. Columellae short. Colpus margin distinct. Colpus membrane coarsely verrucate. Orbicules small, spherical, with a finely granular surface.

Etymology

In honor of the Russian palaeobotanist Valentina A. Samylina in recognition of her contribution to the study of Cretaceous angiosperms.