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The database is hosted by Kiel University
and is established by Magda Wieckowska-
Lüth, Wiebke Kirleis and Kay Schmütz,
Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology.
© Wieckowska-Lüth/Kirleis/Schmütz 2020
Type: UG-1254
Category: Pteridophyta
Taxonomical identification: Phaeoceros cf. carolianus
First publication: Gelorini, V., Verbeken, A., van Geel, B., Cocqyt, C. and Vershuren, D. (2011) Modern non-pollen palynomorphs from East African lake sediments. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 164, 143–173
Other publication/s:
Proskauer, J. (1951) Studies on Anthocerotales. III. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 78, 331–349
Hodgetts, N. (2004) Mosses and liverworts of Uganda (MALOU). Checklist of hepatics and hornworts. U.K. Natural History Museum. Http://tring.naturalhistory.museum/hosted_sites/bbstbg/ugaheps.htm
Description: Spores tetrahedral-obtuse, brown, 37–50 × 23–37 μm, surface covered with small echinae, not joined by reticulum, some echinae forked and bent; Arms of the trilete scar long (3/4 the radius) and appearing as prominent ridges.
(Sub-) Fossil occurence: No information
Co-occurence: No information
Modern occurence: Phaeoceros is distributed nearly worldwide, growing in diverse open habitat such as moist slopes, cleared areas and (often) fallow land (Proskauer, 1951). Only P. carolianus (L.) Prosk. appears to have been reported from Uganda so far (Hodgetts, 2004).
Palaeoenvironmental indication: No information