Unisexual flowers from the Deccan Intertrappean Bed of Madhya Pradesh, India

Abstract

Unisexual flowers are described for the first time from the Deccan Intertrappean Bed of MohgaonKalan, Chhindwara District, Madhya Pradesh, India. The female flower viz., Flosfemina intertrappea is sessile with perianth and unilocular, superior ovary with many ovules. The male flower viz., Flosvirulis deccanensis has six perianth parts and six pairs of anther lobes reflecting six stamens. The anthers contain tricolporate, anguloaperturate, laevigate pollen.

Further contribution to the knowledge of Chitaleypushpam mohgaoense Paradkar

“…Bonde and Kumaran (1993) reported a liliaceous inflorescence and Bonde (1996) recorded a palm rachilla Arecoideostrobus moore from the Deccan Intertrappean beds. A few years back, unisexual flowers Flosfemina intertrappea (female flower) and Flosvirulis deccanensis (male flower) were reported by Kar et al (2003).…”

Araliaceous fossil flower from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Madhya Pradesh, India

“…V arious fossil flowers have been recovered from the black silicified cherts of Mohgaonkalan, Chhindwara District, Madhya Pradesh, India. Apart from monocot flowers, a number of dicot flowers namely Sahnianthus parijai (Shukla, 1944;Chitaley, 1955;Dayal, 1967); Sahnipushpum shuklai (Verma, 1956;Prakash, 1956;Prakash & Jain, 1963;Chitaley, 1964); Sahnianthus dinecterium (Shukla, 1958); Deccanthus savitrii (Chitaley & Kate, 1972); Chitaleypushpum mohgaoense (Paradkar, 1971); Raoanthus intertrappea (Chitaley & Patel, 1973); Flosfemina intertrappea and Flosvirulis deccanensis (Kar et al, 2003), Chenopodianthus mohgaoense (Kapgate et al, 2006) are recorded. The present dicot fossil flower is distinct from all the known records because of strangely lobed base of the ovary and described herewith in detail.…”