Callicrypta, Krassilov & Golovneva, 2004

Krassilov, Valentin A. & Golovneva, Lena B., 2004, A minute mid-Cretaceous flower from Siberia and implications for the problem of basal angiosperms, Geodiversitas 26 (1), pp. 5-15 : 10

Genus Callicrypta n. gen.

TYPE AND ONLY SPECIES. — Callicrypta chlamydea n. sp.

ETYMOLOGY. — From kallos (Greek) = beauty, and krypte (Greek) = to hide.

DIAGNOSIS. — Pistillate flower minute actinomorphic or slightly zygomorphic, hypogynous, with a calyx of six sepals, a biseriate corolla and an apocarpous gynoecium of six carpels. A single or few staminodes might have been present. The sepals are membranous, brittle, larger than petals. The outer petals are relatively thick, valvate. The inner petals are much smaller, with apical glands, supposedly nectariferous. The carpels are ascidiform, unilocular, with a short style, densely pubescent.