Advances in Zoology and Botany Vol. 9(3), pp. 71 - 75
DOI: 10.13189/azb.2021.090302
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Baccatocarpon patanii sp. nov. A New Species of Capsular Fruit from the Deccan Intertrappean Beds of Marai Patan, Tahsil- Jiwati, Dist. Chandrapur, Maharashtra, India

Sanjay W. Patil ^*, Rajesh R. Dahegaonkar
Department of Botany, Dr. Ambedkar College of Arts, Commerce & Science, Chandrapur, District- Chandrapur, Maharashtra, India

ABSTRACT

The present paper deals with the description of a new species of petrified capsular fruit. The fruit is dicotyledonous, capsular formed from pentacarpellary, syncarpous ovary with parietal placentation. The fruit measures 0.12 mm in length and 0.11mm in width. It is circular, pentalocular with two fertile locules having single seed in each locules and three sterile locules. The three sterile locules contain circular parenchymatous cells which act as reserve food materials or provide buoyancy for floating mechanism. The fruit wall or pericarp measures about 4.46-5.42 µm in width and is differentiated into epicarp, mesocarp and endocarp. Outer layer epicarp is multilayered having hexagonal sclerenchymatous cell and measures about 1.10 µm in thickness. Middle layer mesocarp is multilayered having hexagonal sclerenchymatous cell and measures about 1.23 µm in thickness and inner layer endocarp is measures about 2.13 µm in thickness. The fruit is baccate type, different from any existing living family or recorded fossil fruit from the Deccan Intertrappean beds. Therefore, it is named as Baccatocarpon patanii sp. nov. The generic name is being after the baccate nature of the fruit and the specific name indicates the locality from where it was collected.

KEYWORDS
Deccan Intertrappean, Dicotyledonous, Capsular fruit, Pentacarpellary, Syncarpous

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[1] Sanjay W. Patil , Rajesh R. Dahegaonkar , "Baccatocarpon patanii sp. nov. A New Species of Capsular Fruit from the Deccan Intertrappean Beds of Marai Patan, Tahsil- Jiwati, Dist. Chandrapur, Maharashtra, India," Advances in Zoology and Botany, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 71 - 75, 2021. DOI: 10.13189/azb.2021.090302.

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Sanjay W. Patil , Rajesh R. Dahegaonkar (2021). Baccatocarpon patanii sp. nov. A New Species of Capsular Fruit from the Deccan Intertrappean Beds of Marai Patan, Tahsil- Jiwati, Dist. Chandrapur, Maharashtra, India. Advances in Zoology and Botany, 9(3), 71 - 75. DOI: 10.13189/azb.2021.090302.