Studies on the fossil gymnosperms of India - Part 1. A new species of Mesembrioxylon, M. mahabalei sp. nov.

S.N. Agashe

doi:10.54991/jop.1968.808

Authors

S.N. Agashe Botany Department, Shivaji University, Kolhapur

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1968.808

Abstract

In the present paper Mesembrioxylon mahabalei sp. novo has been described from Tiruvakkarai; a village 14 miles N.W. of Pondicherry. This species has some resemblance with M. Sahnii and M. tiruvakkaraianum described by Ramanujam (1953) from the same horizon.

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