Authors : Puranik S D
Page Nos : 210-212
Description :
The fossil dicotyledonous leaf collected from Mohgaonkalan. The fossil leaf dicotylednous, dorsiventral, hypostomatic leaf. Mesophyll differentiated into palisade parenchyma and spongy parenchyma. Single layered upper and lower epidermis, single layered hypodermis, clustered crystal like bodies present in mesophyll, bicolateral vascular strand in midrib region, collateral and conjoint in veinlet bundle, canals in mesophyll, stomata on lower surface of the leaf present in pit cavity with unicellular hairs.Veinlets bundle conjoint and collateral. The fossil leaf under discussion shows many characters of Apocyanaceae with close approach to genus Nerium of Apocyanaceae. But it does resemble Nerium in sensustricto. As it shows xerophytic characters it is named as Xerophyllumintertrappea gen. et. sp. nov.; the generic name is being after xerophytic characters and specific name is being after beds.
