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Florissantia ashwillii

Angiospermae - Solanales - Solanaceae

Taxonomy
Florissantia ashwillii was named by Manchester (1992). Its type locality is Sheep Rock Creek Locality, which is in an Eocene terrestrial conglomerate/sandstone in the Clarno Formation of Oregon.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1992Florissantia ashwillii Manchester

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
phylumSpermatophyta
classAngiospermae
Mesangiosperms
EudicotsDoyle and Hotton 1991
RankNameAuthor
orderSolanalesJussieu 1820
familySolanaceaede Jussieu 1789
genusFlorissantiaKnowlton 1916
speciesashwillii

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Florissantia ashwillii Manchester 1992
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
S. R. Manchester 1992Pedicel 0.6 mm thick, at least 13 mm long. Calyx 21-31 mm diam, gamosepalous, shallowly campanulate, membranaceous, five-parted; calyx incision 40%-60% with lobes well developed, persistent in fruit, with prominent radiating reticulate venation; narrowed and conforming to outline of androgynophore at base. Petals absent. Androgynophore up to 1.5 mm long, thickened into a disk 1.5-1.7 mm diam at the base of the ovary. Ovary superior, obovate, rounded to five-angled in transverse view, with a single style. Androecium consisting of five stamens with filaments fused by their bases into a narrow circular sleeve around the base of the ovary. Filaments 3.5-6.4 mm long. Anther 1.00 mm wide, 1.9 mm long, elongate, transversely sepatate. Pollen oblate, 20-22.5 micrometers (Canada balsam) or 25-27.5 micrometers (glycerine gelly) equatorial diam, isopolar, radially symmetrical, tricolporate, with short colpi. Amb circular to rounded-triangular. Each aperture situated midway between two adjacent angles in grains with rounded-angular amb. Ornamentation reticulate, with smooth muri and more or less amgular lamina 0.4-1.0 micrometers. Fruit consisting of the enlarged ovary, the persistent calyx, and pedicel. Fruit body circular to pentagonal in transverse view 4.1-5.6 mm diam, elliptical in longitudinal view.