Open AccessFossil palm flowers in Dominican and Baltic amber
Author(s) -
POINAR GEORGE
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
botanical journal of the linnean society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.872
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1095-8339
pISSN - 0024-4074
DOI - 10.1046/j.1095-8339.2002.00052.x
Subject(s) - stamen , baltic amber , biology , palm , botany , palm oil , pollen , genus , agroforestry , physics , quantum mechanics
Five palm flowers in Dominican amber and one in Baltic amber are described or characterized. Palaeoraphe dominicana gen. et sp. nov. in the subtribe Livistoninae, is described from one perfect flower in Dominican amber. Roystonea palaea sp. nov. is described from one staminate and one pistillate flower in Dominican amber. Three other palm flowers, two perfect flowers from Dominican amber and one staminate flower from Baltic amber, are briefly characterized and figured. © 2002 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society , 2002, 139 , 361–367.