Fossil palm flowers in Dominican and Baltic amber |
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| Authors: | GEORGE POINAR JR |
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| Institution: | Department of Entomology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA |
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| Abstract: | Five palm flowers in Dominican amber and one in Baltic amber are described or characterized. Palaeoraphe dominicana gen. et sp. nov. in the subtribe Livistoninae, is described from one perfect flower in Dominican amber. Roystonea palaea sp. nov. is described from one staminate and one pistillate flower in Dominican amber. Three other palm flowers, two perfect flowers from Dominican amber and one staminate flower from Baltic amber, are briefly characterized and figured. © 2002 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society , 2002, 139 , 361–367. |
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| Keywords: | distribution Palmae Tertiary flowers |
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