A new fossil wood resembling the genus Parinarium of the family Rosaceae from the Tertiary of South India

N. Awasthi

doi:10.54991/jop.1968.809

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N. Awasthi Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226007, India

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https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1968.809

Abstract

A fossil wood collected from near the villages Murattandichavadi and Kasipalayam, about 8-10 km. W.N.W. of Pondicherry is described. In all the anatomical characters it resembles the wood of the genus Parinarium of the Rosaceae. It is placerl under the genlls Parinarioxylon Pfeiffer & Van Heurn., and named as Parinarioxylon cuddalorense sp. nov.

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