词条 | Meliorchis |
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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|15}}Miocene | display_parents = 3 | genus = Meliorchis | parent_authority = | species = caribea | authority = }} Meliorchis caribea is an extinct, early to middle Miocene orchid known only from a packet of pollen attached to the wing of a stingless bee, Proplebeia dominicana, trapped in Dominican amber. It was the first fossil orchid ever described, and allowed for a revised estimate of the time of origin of the Orchidaceae to the Mesozoic.[1] Morphology of the pollinium shows that M. caribea is closely related to the modern genus Ligeophila. References1. ^{{cite journal |author1=Santiago R. Ramírez |author2=Barbara Gravendeel |author3=Rodrigo B. Singer |author4=Charles R. Marshall |author5=Naomi E. Pierce | title=Dating the origin of the Orchidaceae from a fossil orchid with its pollinator| journal=Nature | date=30 August 2007| volume=448| url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7157/abs/nature06039.html| pages=1042–5| doi=10.1038/nature06039 | pmid=17728756 | issue=7157}}
4 : Goodyerinae|Miocene plants|Monotypic Orchidoideae genera|Cranichideae genera |
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