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Image Title: Fossil flowers of Florissantia
Image Credit: Sandra Sweetman
AJB Editor: Nels R. Lersten, Iowa State University
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Copyright held by: Sandra Sweetman, BSA
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Fossil flowers of Florissantia, an extinct genus of sterculiaceous affinity, compressed transversely in shale from the middle Eocene of Republic, Washington.

Link to the AJB Abstract for the article:

Flowers, fruits, and pollen of Florissantia, an extinct Malvalean genus from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America

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