Early Cretaceous Archaeamphora is not a carnivorous angiosperm
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Early Cretaceous Archaeamphora is not a carnivorous angiosperm
Archaeamphora longicervia H. Q. Li was described as an herbaceous, Sarraceniaceae-like pitcher plant from the mid Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, northeastern China. Here, a re-investigation of A. longicervia specimens from the Yixian Formation provides new insights into its identity and the morphology of pitcher plants claimed by Li. We demonstrate that putative pitcher...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Plant Science
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1664-462X
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00326