Studies in the Deccan Intertrappean flora - 3. On a new species of fossil woods of Euphorbiaceae from the Intertrappean beds of Madhya Pradesh

U. Prakash

doi:10.54991/jop.1957.559

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U. Prakash Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226007, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1957.559

Abstract

The paper describes a new species of fossil wood of Euphorbiaceae from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Keria (21°59'40"N.; 79°10'15"E.) in Madhya Pradesh. The fossil wood is named as Euphorbioxylon krauseli.

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