Ailanthoxylon mahurzarii sp. nov., new fossil Dicotyledonous wood from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Mahurzari

L.J. Shallom

doi:10.54991/jop.1959.589

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L.J. Shallom Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226007, India

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https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1959.589

Abstract

A fossil dicotyledonous wood Ailanthoxylon mahurzarii sp. nov., previously described as Simarubaceoxylon muhuzarii by the author (SHALLOM, 1959), has been described here in detail from the Deccan lntertrappean beds of Mahurzari, a village about 8 miles north-west of Nagpur, Long. 79.0'E and Lat. 21.13'N. From India this has been the first record of a Simaroubaceous wood, now found to be showing closest resemblance to the living genus and species Ailanthus malabarica of the family Simaroubaceae.

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