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Droseridites
Temporal range: Palaeocene
Photomicrographs of D. echinosporus pollen taken at 1000x magnification.
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Droseridites

Cookson (1947)
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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]

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.