Abstract Background and Aims Radially symmetrical, five-winged fossil fruits from the highly
diverse early Eocene Laguna del Hunco flora of Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina, are …

Petals, a characteristic feature of eudicots, have evolved elaborations in various ways and
across diverse clades. In this survey of petal and staminode elaborations throughout the …

Premise Cunoniaceae are a family of shrubs and trees with 27 genera and ca. 335 species,
mostly confined to tropical and wet temperate zones of the southern hemisphere. There are …

The fossil flower Tropidogyne pikei Chambers, Poinar & RT Buckley, previously described
from Burmese amber has five spreading, epigynous sepals with five major veins and …

Tropidogyne pikei KL Chambers, Poinar & RT Buckley, representing a new genus and
species, is described from an Early Cretaceous flower preserved in Burmese amber …

Cunoniaceae are important elements of rainforests across the Southern Hemisphere. Many
of these flowering plants are considered Paleo‐Antarctic Rainforest Lineages that had a …

Abstract Background and Aims Early Palaeocene (Danian) plant fossils from Patagonia
provide information on the recovery from the end-Cretaceous extinction and Cenozoic …

Trees, shrubs, occasionally hemiepiphytic or strangling (some Weinmannia); hairs generally
simple, sometimes trichomes stellate and peltate, long, stiff and irritating in Davidsonia; bark …

Abstract Background and Aims Cunoniaceae are woody plants with a distribution that
suggests a complex history of Gondwanan vicariance, long-distance dispersal …

The fossil flower described here is the third species of Tropidogyne to have been collected
from mid-Cretaceous amber deposits in the Hukawng Valley of northwestern Myanmar. The …