Fossil woods of Anacardiaceae from the Tertiary of West Bengal, India

S.K. Roy; Pradip Ghosh

doi:10.54991/jop.1981.1422

Authors

S.K. Roy Botany Department, University of Burdwan, Burdwan 713104, India
Pradip Ghosh Botany Department, Vivekananda College, Burdwan 703104, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1981.1422

Keywords:

Anacardiaceae, Fossil woods, Xylotomy, Miocene (India)

Abstract

Four species of fossil woods belonging to the family Anacardiaceae and referable to Buchananioxylon indicum gen. et sp. nov., Dracontomelumoxylon mangiferumoides Ghosh & Roy, Melanorrhoeoxylon garbetaense sp. nov. and Mangiferoxylon assamicum Prakash & Tripathi have been described. The occurrence of fossil woods resembling Buchanania Spreng., Melanorrhoea Wall., and Mangifera L. is described here for the first time from the Tertiary rocks of the Birbhum and Midnapur districts of West Bengal.

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