Origin and divergence of Afro-Indian Picrodendraceae: linking pollen morphology, dispersal modes, fossil records, molecular dating and paleogeography

F Grímsson, SA Graham, M Coiro, BF Jacobs, A Xafis… - Grana, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The pantropical Picrodendraceae produce mostly spheroidal to slightly oblate, echinate
pollen grains equipped with narrow circular to elliptic pori that can be hard to identify to …

Biogeographic and evolutionary history of Crotonoideae based on pollen evidence from Indian Late Cretaceous and Paleogene sediments

M Bansal, S Mishra, V Prasad - Biotropica, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Euphorbiaceae Juss. is a globally distributed angiosperm family with considerable diversity.
It is divided into five subfamilies, each of which possesses pollen of distinct morphology. The …

A combined light and scanning electron microscopy study

JM Bouchal, R Zetter, T Denk - Grana, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The uppermost Eocene Florissant Formation, Rocky Mountains, Colorado, has
yielded numerous insect, vertebrate and plant fossils. Three previous comprehensive …

Distinguishing the pollen of Dipterocarpaceae from the seasonally dry and moist tropics of south-east Asia using light microscopy

R Hamilton, T Hall, J Stevenson, D Penny - Review of Palaeobotany and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The Dipterocarpaceae family is ubiquitous across mainland and maritime south-east Asia.
Species within the family are often so well-adapted to–and prolific within–ecologically …

Fossil pollen from early Palaeogene sediments in western India provides phylogenetic insights into divergence history and pollen character evolution in the …

M Bansal, SK Nagaraju, AK Mishra… - Botanical Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Many plant families lack substantive fossil records, limiting our understanding of their origin
and evolution. The abundance and preservation potential of pollen through geological time …

The fossil pollen record of Araceae

M Hesse, R Zetter - Plant Systematics and Evolution, 2007 - Springer
The fossil record of Araceae pollen beginning in the late Early Cretaceous and peaking in
the Paleocene/Eocene is very sparse up to now, consisting of three highly distinctive types …

Ultrastructural studies of some fossil and extant palm pollen, and the reconstruction of the biogeographical history of subtribes Iguanurinae and Calaminae

MM Harley, RJ Morley - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 1995 - Elsevier
Two monosulcate and one disulcate palm-like pollen types are described from a Middle
Eocene lignite sample at Watupuru River, near Kalisonggo, Nanggulan, Central Java. Their …

[HTML][HTML] The Origin and Diversification of Plant Family Dipterocarpaceae

M Bansal, SK Nagaraju, V Prasad - Open Journal of Geology, 2019 - scirp.org
The Dipterocarpaceae plant family, that shows a disjunct distribution in Gondwanan
continents and Southeast Asia, is a dominant constituent of the tropical rain forests of …

The Triassic pollen genus Camerosporites: New morphological and ultrastructural data, revised taxonomy and paleobiogeographical aspects

J Scibiorski, D Peyrot, A Charles, D Haig - Review of Palaeobotany and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents new morphological and ultrastructural data on Camerosporites pollen
obtained from a range of microscopy techniques, and uses these (and other) data to emend …

Three Unusual New Species of Plukenetia (Euphorbiaceae) from Madagascar: Species Radiation and Convergent Evolution in P. sect. Madagascarienses

LJ Gillespie, WM Cardinal-McTeague… - Systematic …, 2024 - ingentaconnect.com
We describe three unusual new species of Plukenetia sect. Madagascarienses from eastern
Madagascar based on morphology, pollen, and molecular data. Plukenetia …