BIOINFOLET - A Quarterly Journal of Life Sciences
Web of Science
  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 1

A dicotyledonous drupaceous Fossil fruit Scaevolacarpon indicum Gen. et. sp. Nov. from Mohgaonkalan, M.P., India

  • Author:
  • P. S. Kokate1, E. V. Upadhye, G. V. Patil
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 59 to 63

1Department of Botany, Shri Shivaji College of Arts, Commerce and Science, Akola.

Abstract

The present fossil is unilocular drupaceous. It is globose and without stalk, compressed, single seeded, unilocular, oval in shape and indehiscent. Fruit wall consists of conspicuous air cavities of various dimensions. The fruit is beaked with small opening at the beaked portion. The fruit show similarities with Scaevola (Goodeniaceae), hence the name as Scaevolacarpon indicum.

Keywords

Intertrappean, Angiosperm, fossil fruit, Drupaceous, Scaevola