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Eomimosoidea plumosa
Taxonomy
Eomimosoidea plumosa was named by Crepet and Dilcher (1977). Its type locality is Warman Clay Pit, which is in an Eocene terrestrial horizon in the Claiborne Formation of Tennessee.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1977 | Eomimosoidea plumosa Crepet and Dilcher |
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†Eomimosoidea plumosa Crepet and Dilcher 1977
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Crepet and D. L. Dilcher 1977 | Spicate inflorescences at least 6 cm in length of nearly sessile, alternate, perfect flowers; flowers having a small floral envelope (1.95 mm x 1.76 mm) composed of a shallowly-dished calyx and a corolla with four ovate lobes connate at the base; 10 exserted stamens extending 5 mm beyond the floral envelope with bilocular longitudinally-dehiscing anthers; style extending 2 mm beyond the floral envelope with bilocular longitudinally-dehiscing anthers; style extending 2 mm beyond the floral envelope ending in a slightly swollen rounded stigma; both style and stigma with hairs; pollen grains tricolporate and arranged in permanent tetrahedral tetrads 32 micrometers in diameter; exine tectate, reticulate, and baculate (sensu Sorsa, 1969); exine continuous between grains in region of apertures and exine |