Droseridites

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Droseridites
Fossil range: Palaeocene
Photomicrographs of D. echinosporus pollen taken at 1000x magnification.
Photomicrographs of D. echinosporus pollen taken at 1000x magnification.
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Droseraceae
Genus: Droseridites
Cookson (1947)
Species
  • Droseridites baculatus
  • Droseridites echinosporus
  • Droseridites parvus
  • Droseridites senonicus
  • Droseridites spinosus (type)

Droseridites is a genus of extinct plants in the family Droseraceae.

Fossil pollen from the Kerguelen Islands originally described as Droseridites spinosus has been tentatively transferred to the genus Nepenthes.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Meimberg, H., A. Wistuba, P. Dittrich & G. Heubl 2001. Molecular Phylogeny of Nepenthaceae Based on Cladistic Analysis of Plastid trnK Intron Sequence Data. Plant Biology (Stuttgart) 3: 164-175.