Droseridites
| Droseridites Temporal range: Palaeocene
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| Genus: | 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
- ^ 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.