Authors : S. P. Pati , S. K. Zilpe and D. K. Kapgate
Page Nos : 166-170
Description :
The pre sent paper deals with a monocot palm fruit reported from the Deccan Intertrappean Series of Maraipatan of
Chandrapur District (M.S.). It is a sessile, circular to oval, unilocular, drupe with single seed in a locule. It
Measures 5.5mm in diameter. Fruit wall differ into three zones. Seed is oval, bitegmic, endospermous with central
cavity. It show close resemblance with living fruit of Livistona of family Palmae but not in Toto. Hence it is kept in
the same form genus Palmocarpon (Mique l, 1853) and a new species is created to accommodate this fruit as
Palmocarpon patnii sp. nov.
