Authors : D. K. Kapgate , S. P. Patil and Y. B. Gedam
Page Nos : 70-74
Description :
The present paper deals with the study of some angiosperm flora including palm wood with roots and a dicot flower and fruits collected from a new exposed near village Pudiyalmohada of Jivati taluka of Chandrapur District. The locality (N19034.269’ E079001.866’) shows well preserved fossil flora belongs to Deccan Intertrappean Beds of India (65-70 millions age). It spared along the road side, in the field and nearby foot of hill. The palm stems and isolated roots are found scattered. The Black chert shows well preserved flora, some of them found by naked eye. Few dicot fruits with one flower found embedded in black cherts are exposed while breaking and etching by Hydrofluoric acid. The monocot wood shows resemblances with Palmoxylon and isolated roots as Rhizoplamoxylon. The dicot flower is of Sahnianthus and fruit is capsular, showing loculicidal dehiscence. It is globular in shape containing six to eight locules having many seeds in each arranged in two rows showing axile placentation. These fruits resembles with reported Enigmocarpon fruits with minor differences, hence named as E. chandrapurensis sp. nov.
