Petrified palm stem, palmoxylon penchense sp. nov. from the deccan intertrappean beds of Madhya Pradesh, India

B.S. Trivedi; C.L. Verma

doi:10.54991/jop.1972.1497

Authors

B.S. Trivedi Botany Department, Lucknow University, Lucknow, India
C.L. Verma Botany Department, Lucknow University, Lucknow, India

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https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1972.1497

Abstract

The paper describes Palmoxylon penchense sp. nov. from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Madhya Pradesh, India. This species is characterized by the presence of lacunar ground tissue, absence of ventral sclerenchyma, absence of both radiating and tabular parenchyma and absence of stegmata both from the fibrous bundles and fibrous part of fibrovascular bundles. It is compared with all the known species of Palmoxylon.

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