''Palaeoaldrovanda splendens'' is a
form taxon of uncertain identity.
It was for a long time thought to be an
extinct
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angiosperm
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allied to the
carnivorous plant
Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans
Protozoa (singular: protozoan or protozoon; alternative plural: protozoans) are a group of single-celled eukaryot ...
genus ''
Aldrovanda''.
Cajsa Lisa Anderson
Anna Christina Warg (23March 17035February 1769), better known as Cajsa (or Kajsa) Warg, was a Swedish cookbook author and one of the best-known cooks in Swedish history.
Early life
Warg was born in Örebro, the younger of two daughters, to a ...
''et al.'' (2005) wrote: "synapomorphic characters that link the fossils seeds
f ''P. splendens''
F, or f, is the sixth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ef'' (pronounced ), and the plural is ''efs''.
Hist ...
to extant ''Aldrovanda'' include hard
testa Testa may refer to:
* Testa (botany), a term to describe the seed coat
* Testa (surname)
* Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, a former Boston law firm
* 11667 Testa, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1997
* Testa (ceramics), fired clay material, espe ...
with an outer epidermis of
palisade cells and with a smooth, strongly reflecting surface, short