Washington, February 22, 2016, 00:45 – REGNUM A new species of plants, two of which were found in Dominican amber flower, lived on Earth at least 15 million years ago. A fossil discovered an unusual inclusion entomologist George Poinar and handed it to the botanist Lena Struve. On the discovery of a new species of ancient flora, scientists reported in a joint paper on the pages of the journal Nature Plants.
The collection of amber collected in the Dominican Republic in 1986, as a rule, there are representatives of arthropods. The plants found in amber is only partially: usually scientists determine only fragments of leaves, petals and stamens. Especially surprising was the discovery of two well-preserved flowers.
Professor at Oregon State University, took photographs of fossils and gave them to a botanist Lena Struve. After a detailed study of images revealed that parts of the plants belong to the genus Strychnos, and likely to be new to science view
Strychnos electri -. The name decided to give a new kind of opening of the authors. The specific name of the ancient flora has received from the Greek name of amber (electron).
Fossil plant, as well as its modern relatives, it is poisonous and contain strychnine. Scientists claim that this is the first discovery of a large part of the plant among all subclass asterid -. One of the largest groups of flowering plants belonging to the class of bipartite
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