Myricanthium pragense J.Kvaček et H.Eklund

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000626

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:626

Authors: J. Kvaček & H. Eklund

Rank: species

Genus:

Reference: Kvaček, J. & Eklund, H. (2003): A report on newly recovered reproductive structures from the Cenomanian of Bohemia (Central Europe). – International Journal of Plant Sciences 164(6): 1021–1039., link

Page of description: 1025

Illustrations or figures: figs 4, 5

Other combinations

Types

Original diagnosis/description

Compound infructescences. The primary axis bearing semidecussately to nearly helically arranged secondary axes with fruits. Each secondary axis borne in the axil of a primary bract. The secondary axes bearing 100–150 sessile fruits, which are closely spaced and helically arranged. Each fruit supported by a small bract. Fruits circular in outline with numerous resin bodies in the fruit wall. The fruit apex with a circular, sessile stigma. Pollen grains adhering on the stigma of the Retimonocolpites type. Fruit wall thin. Seed coat thick, consisting of two layers.

Emended diagnosis

J. Kvaček et Friis (2010): Grana, 49(2): 119:
As in Kvaček and Eklund (2003) with the following addition: Floral cup short, about one fourth of the total length of the fruit, most pronounced adaxially. Pollen with almost homogeneous reticulum.

Etymology

Derived from Prague (Praha), the name of the capital of the Czech Republic, where the fossil was found.

Stratigraphy

Cretaceous, Upper Cretaceous, Cenomanian
Peruc Member, Peruc-Korycany Formation of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin

Locality

Czech Republic
Prague, Hloubětín-Hutě

50° 06′ 34″ N, 14° 33′ 20″ E according to J. Kvaček et Friis (2010: Grana, 49(2): 119)