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ArticleGrana2018

The first Loranthaceae fossils from Africa.

Friðgeir Grímsson, Alexandros Xafis, Frank H Neumann, Louis Scott, Marion K Bamford, Reinhard Zetter

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Article in Grana, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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6 authors.

Friðgeir GrímssonDepartment of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-1874-6412
Alexandros XafisDepartment of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-5528-3106
Frank H NeumannSchool of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-3620-2742
Louis ScottDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-4531-0497
Marion K BamfordEvolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-0667-130X
Reinhard ZetterDepartment of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-0220-6921

Funding

Austrian Science Fund FWF P 29501
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An ongoing re-investigation of the early Miocene Saldanha Bay (South Africa) palynoflora, using combined light and scanning electron microscopy (single grain method), is revealing several pollen types new to the African fossil record. One of the elements identified is Loranthaceae pollen. These grains represent the first and only fossil record of Loranthaceae in Africa. The fossil pollen grains resemble those produced by the core Lorantheae and are comparable to recent Asian as well as some African taxa/lineages. Molecular and fossil signals indicate that Loranthaceae dispersed into Africa via Asia sometime during the Eocene. The present host range of African Loranthaceae and the composition of the palynoflora suggest that the fossil had a range of potential host taxa to parasitise during the early Miocene in the Saldanha Bay region.

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diagnostic pollenhost plantsMiocenepalaeoecologypalaeophytogeographyparasitic plantspollen morphologySantalales

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