A Megastrobilus belonging to the Araucariaceae from the Rajmahal Hills, Bihar, India

M.N. Bose; K.P. Jain

doi:10.54991/jop.1963.658

Authors

M.N. Bose Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226007, India
K.P. Jain Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226007, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1963.658

Abstract

The present communication is concerned with an incomplete megastrobilus belonging to the Araucariaceae. The specimen is a portion of a cone having the central axis with several, compact, spirally arranged non-ligulate cone-scales; mostly with a single, completely embedded seed, but very few (here seen in only two cone-scales) in their early stages of development possess two unequal groups of nucellar cells.

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