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THE FIRST ORGANISMAL CONCEPT FOR AN EXTINCT SPECIES OF PINACEAE: PINUS ARNOLDII MILLER

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES
Volume 172, Issue 2, Pages 294-313

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UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/657649

Keywords

conifer; Eocene; fossil; Pinaceae; Pinus arnoldii; Pinus similkameenensis

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  1. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [A-6908]
  2. National Science Foundation [EF-0629819]

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The Eocene Princeton Chert locality of southern British Columbia, Canada, provides data to develop organismal concepts for several species of fossil plants, including the first extinct species of Pinaceae, Pinus arnoldii Miller. This new species concept is based on a combination of interconnected organs, common histological features, and patterns of association among isolated plant parts. These data expand our knowledge of P. arnoldii from a morphospecies of ovulate cones to an extinct species of pine that produces woody stems with five-needled fascicles of leaves; simple pollen cones with two abaxial pollen sacs per microsporophyll, containing bisaccate pollen grains; seed cones with inflated scale apices, dorsal umbos that do not bear mucros, and a thick-walled sclerotic outer cortex; and coralloid roots with ectomycorrhizal associations. Organs preserved at various stages of development provide evidence for numerous aspects of growth and reproductive biology, including pollination biology and seed cone development. Cladistic analyses of morphological and molecular characters demonstrate that the novel combination of characters displayed by P. arnoldii causes this extinct species to fall near the base of the Pinus L. tree, either as the sister to all living species of the subgenus Pinus or outside the subgenera that have been defined by extant species of Pinus.

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