Report on Dicotyledonous Unilocular Fruit with Spiny Seeded from Deccan Intertrappean Beds of Mohgaonkalan, M.P., India.
Journal Title: International Journal of Life Science - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
The fossil unilocular fruit with peculiar characteristic of single spiny seed collected from the Deccan Intertrappean Sedimentary beds of the fossiliferous locality Mohgaonkalan coordinates (22 ͦ 1 ̍ N, 79 ͦ 11 ̍ ̍ E) in Chhindwara District in Madhya Pradesh, India. The Fruit is dicot, simple, capsule, unilocular, single with ridges or spiny seed, indehiscent, dry, basal placentation, polygonal shaped. The seed is large, dicotyledonous, anatropous, bitegmic, briolette with spiny seed coat. After a detailed study the fruit revails many peculier characters resembalance with modern family Capparidaceae, Caricaceae, Calophyllum, Moringaceae and Oxalidaceae. but do not shows affinity with reported fossil fruits.
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Jayshri Nandeshwar, Arun K Zingare
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