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