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First record of an Icacinaceae Miers fossil flower from Le Quesnoy (Ypresian, France) amber.
Scientific reports - 11 Sept 2017
Del Rio Cédric, Haevermans Thomas, De Franceschi Dario
Abstract excerpt
Flowers embedded in amber are rare. Only about 70 flowers or inflorescences have been described among which only one lamiid is known. Nevertheless, these fossils are important to our understanding of evolutionary process and past diversity due to the exceptional preservation of fragile structures not normally preserved. In this work, a new flower named Icacinanthium tainiaphorum sp. nov. from Le Quesnoy...
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