Parrotia flower blooming in Miocene rainforest  

作　　者：Xie-Ting Wu Jun-Wu Shu Su-Xin Yin Eva-Maria Sadowski Gong-Le Shi 

机构地区：[1]State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy,Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment,Chinese Academy of Science,Nanjing 210008,China [2]University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China [3]Museum für Naturkunde,Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science,Berlin 10115,Germany [4]Institute of Botany,Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences,Nanjing 210014,China

出　　处：《Journal of Systematics and Evolution》2024年第3期449-456,共8页植物分类学报（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB26000000);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association,Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y2021082)to Gong-Le Shi;the German Research Foundation (DFG,Grant No.423862824)to Eva-Maria Sadowski。

摘　　要：Parrotia C.A.Meyer(Hamamelidaceae)is a relictual genus with only two extant species disjunctly distributed in the subtropical forests of East China and temperate forests of North Iran.Fossil records suggest that Parrotia was widespread in Europe and Asia during the Miocene,but its fossils are predominantly based on pollen and leaves.In this paper we describe the first fossil flower of Parrotia based on an exceptionally well-preserved amber inclusion from the middle Miocene of Zhangpu,Southeast China.The fossil flower was investigated with light microscope and microcomputed tomography techniques.Parrotia zhiyanii sp.nov.is a small apetalous staminate flower subtended by a pair of prominent bracts.The androecium consists of 12 stamens,and each stamen consists of a short,slender filament and a prominent,elongated anther.The anthers with short simple trichomes on the outer surface and a prominent apical connective extension are opened by longitudinal slits.Unlike its living relatives,the new Parrotia from Zhangpu grew in a Miocene seasonal tropical rainforest.

关 键 词：AMBER FLOWER Fujian HAMAMELIDACEAE Parrotia RAINFOREST 

分 类 号：Q94[生物学—植物学]