“…The Deccan Intertrappean (Maastrichtian-Danian) flora hosts one of the richest fossil plant assemblages in India and offers valuable insights for understanding the diversity, evolution, and palaeobiogeography of the Indian flora during the K-Pg transition when India was still a relatively isolated landmass (Kapgate, 2005;Chatterjee et al, 2013;Smith et al, 2015). It is interesting to note that palms have been recognized as an important component of this flora, represented by numerous permineralized stems of Palmoxylon (Prakash and Ambwani, 1980;Ambwani, 1984a, b;Manchester et al, 2016;Khan et al, 2019Khan et al, , 2020a, fruits (Prakash, 1960;Bande et al, 1982;Mehrotra, 1987;Bonde, 1990;Manchester et al, 2016;Matsunaga et al, 2019) as well as several species of leaf remains (Sahni 1964;Bonde, 1986;Roy et al, 2021;Kumar et al, 2022a). In addition to palm woods, other abundant plant megafossils reported from the Deccan Traps are silicified dicot woods (Lakhanpal et al, 1979;Bande and Khatri, 1980;Prakash, 1980, 1983;Bande et al, 1986;Mehrotra, 1989;Srivastava, 2010;Baas et al, 2017), and a few dicot leaf fossils (Prasad et al, 2013: Khan et al, 2020c.…”