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Fire-prone Rhamnaceae with South African affinities in Cretaceous Myanmar amber.
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- Fossil evidence of orchid-like dust seeds in Myanmar amber featuring early angiosperm radiation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- MRI-Seed-Wizard: combining deep learning algorithms with magnetic resonance imaging enables advanced seed phenotyping.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Article
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- Comparative analysis of 12 water lily plastid genomes reveals genomic divergence and evolutionary relationships in early flowering plants.Marine life science & technology · 2024Article
- Novel three-dimensional reconstructions of presumed Phylica (Rhamnaceae) from Cretaceous amber suggest Lauralean affinities.Nature plants · 2024Article
- Flowers from Myanmar amber confirm the Cretaceous age of Rhamnaceae but not of the extant genus Phylica.Nature plants · 2024Article
- A light in the dark: a mid-Cretaceous bioluminescent firefly with specialized antennal sensory organs.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Fire-released seed dormancy - a global synthesis.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Article
- Ancient Rhamnaceae flowers impute an origin for flowering plants exceeding 250-million-years ago.iScience · 2022Article
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Abstract
The rapid Cretaceous diversification of flowering plants remains Darwin's 'abominable mystery' despite numerous fossil flowers discovered in recent years. Wildfires were frequent in the Cretaceous and many such early flower fossils are represented by charcoalified fragments, lacking complete delicate structures and surface textures, making their similarity to living forms difficult to discern. Furthermore, scarcity of information about the ecology of early angiosperms makes it difficult to test hypotheses about the drivers of their diversification, including the role of fire in shaping flowering plant evolution. We report the discovery of two exquisitely preserved fossil flower species, one identical to the inflorescences of the extant crown-eudicot genus Phylica and the other recovered as a sister group to Phylica, both preserved as inclusions together with burned plant remains in Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (~99 million years ago). These specialized flower species, named Phylica piloburmensis sp. nov. and Eophylica priscastellata gen. et sp. nov., exhibit traits identical to those of modern taxa in fire-prone ecosystems such as the fynbos of South Africa, and provide evidence of fire adaptation in angiosperms.
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