A Jurassic flower bud from China
Author
Cui, Da-Fang
0000-0003-2440-8425
College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Author
Hou, Yemao
0000-0002-3247-7757
Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology, CAS Centre for Excellence in Life and Palaeoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
Author
Yin, Pengfei
0000-0002-4520-5347
Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology, CAS Centre for Excellence in Life and Palaeoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
Author
Wang, Xin
0000-0002-4053-5515
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and CAS Centre for Excellence in Life and Palaeoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
xinwang@nigpas.ac.cn
text
Geological Society, London, Special Publications
2022
2022-01-06
521
1
13
journal article
10.1144/SP521-2021-122
023770ae-0f4e-45f8-b55a-b9cb0a1c1dd4
5883880
Florigerminis
gen. nov.
Type species
.
Florigerminis jurassica
gen. et sp. nov.
Etymology
.
Flori-
for flower in Latin, -
germinis
for bud in Latin.
Generic diagnosis
. Woody branch with nodes, leaf scars, physically connected fruit and flower bud. Leaves abscised, helically arranged, with decurrent petioles. Flower–fruit pairs helically clustered on the distal portion of the branch. Flower bud terminated on the branch, paired, with a straight pedicel, oval-shaped, with several tepals suggested by their sculpture. Multiple tepals smooth-margined, tightly enwrapping the centre. Fruit borne on a slender curving pedicel, oval-shaped, with four persistent decussately arranged foliar parts and an apical invagination. Endocarp elongated oval, with a pointed tip.
Locality
.
Daohugou Village
,
Ningcheng
,
Inner Mongolia
,
China
(
41° 18′ 39.60″ N
,
119° 13′ 29.14″ E
).
Horizon
. The Jiulongshan Formation.