A petrified matoniaceous rhizome from Amarjola in the Rajmahal Hills, India

B.D. Sharma; D.R. Bohra

doi:10.54991/jop.1976.1031

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B.D. Sharma Department of Botany, University of Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India
D.R. Bohra Department of Botany, University of Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1976.1031

Abstract

Anatomy is described of a petrified rhizome collected from the Jurassic of Rajmahal Hills, Bihar. There are present three cyclic amphiphloic solenosteles with well-developed traces and wide leaf gaps. Protoxylem points are mesarch. Comparison is made with both living as well as fossil representatives of the family Matoniaceae.

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