A new fossil palm from Kondhali, District Nagpur, Maharashtra

T.S. Mahabale; K.M. Kulkarni

doi:10.54991/jop.1978.1087

Authors

T.S. Mahabale Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science, Pune-411007, India
K.M. Kulkarni Department of Botany, University of Poona, Pune-411007, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1978.1087

Abstract

A fossil palm wood, Palmoxylon kondhaliensis sp. nov., originally from Deccan Intertrappean beds and collected loose from a nalla near Kondhali Village has been described. The wood belonging to the Reniformia section of Stenzel (1904) has complete bark with marks of slightly elevated leaf scars and vertical cracks.

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