On a Fruitification from the Intertrappean Flora of the Madhya Pradesh, India

S.D. Chitaley

doi:10.54991/jop.1954.444

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S.D. Chitaley University of Reading, U.K.

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https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1954.444

Abstract

A new specimen identical with Viracarpon hexaspermum Sahni is investigated and described in detail. The stalked axis of the fructification bears sessile, ebracteate fruits in close vertical rows; the individual fruits are six-angular, six-carpellary and hexalocular with a single pendulous seed in each loculus: the fruit top has depressions and bears a crown of hairy spines. Comparison with the modern families shows that this monocotyledonous genus is an extinct one, and does not readily fall into any existing family.

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