Droseridites

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Droseridites Fossil range: Palaeocene
Photomicrographs of D. echinosporus pollen taken at 1000x magnification.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Caryophyllales Family: Droseraceae Genus: Droseridites Cookson (1947)
Species
Droseridites baculatus Droseridites echinosporus Droseridites parvus Droseridites senonicus Droseridites spinosus (type)

Droseridites is a genus of extinct plants in the family Droseraceae.

Fossil pollen from the Kerguelen Islands originally described as Droseridites spinosus has been tentatively transferred to the genus Nepenthes.^[1]

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