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

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000906

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:906

Authors: E. M. Friis, P. R. Crane & K. R. Pedersen

Rank: genus

Reference: Friis, E. M., Crane, P. R. & Pedersen, K. R. (2020): Multiparted, apocarpous flowers from the Early Cretaceous of eastern North America and Portugal. – Fossil Imprint 76(2): 279–296.

Page of description: 281

Type

Original diagnosis/description

Flower structurally bisexual, with multiparted perianth, androecium and gynoecium. Floral receptacle flat to slightly concave but conical in the pistillate region. Phyllotaxis of floral organs apparently spiral. Perianth of about 50 tepals in several series. Tepals broad with transversely elongate and rhomboidal bases. Androecium of more than 50 stamens in several series. Stamens with short bases, poorly differentiated from the anther, rhomboidal in transverse section. Anthers dithecate and tetrasporangiate with an expanded and slightly pointed connective apex. Pollen sacs in a lateral position. Gynoecium superior, apocarpous, of more than 50 free carpels borne in several series on the conical gynoecial portion of the receptacle.

Etymology

From the village of Mugideira close to where the fossil was collected.