NAME Lirasporis intergranifer
AGE (Potonié & Sah) Late Miocene or Pliocene; (Jain & Kar): Early Miocene-Early Pliocene.   AGE span: 23.03...3.6 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti?, Dictyosporae?
FIGURE(S)
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FIGURE REFERENCE Potonié R, Sah SCD. 1960. Sporae dispersae of the lignites from Cannanore beach on the Malabar coast of India; The Palaeobotanist, v. 7 (1958), p. 121-135.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY L. intergranifer Potonié & Sah 1960, p. 132, pl. 4, fig. 33.
LOCATION (Potonié & Sah) European Club, Cannanore Beach, Kerala, India; (Jain & Kar): Padappakkara, Edvai and Varkala, Kerala Coast, South India.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Additional to the generic description: Ribs much more narrow than the canals between them; in the canals sparse grana more or less regularly distributed in distances, perhaps a little greater than the breadth of the canals and always only a single granum between the two adjoining ribs; about 10-20 grana in each canal along the longer axis. Holotype: 82 x 109 µm; perhaps 20 ribs on the exposed surface; 16-20 grana in an entire canal; chiefly at one of the longitudinal ends the exine is jumbled to form irregular rounded protuberances (such as illustrated by Samoilovich 1953, pl. 9, fig. 4a, in Vittatina subsaccata; and Bolkhovitina 1953, pl. 9, fig. 18, in Welwitschiapites magniolobatus; and as has been observed in Ephedra).

EMENDED DESCRIPTION (Jain & Kar 1979, p. 108): Oval-elliptical fungal bodies, 112-154 x 65-113 µm; ends equally or unequally broad, generally notched at one or both ends. Mycelia distinct, run from end to end, septate; wall mostly smooth.
COMMENTS* (Jain & Kar): Potonié & Sah (1960) selected Lirasporis intergranifer as the type species of Lirasporis Potonié & Sah 1960 and referred to fig. 4 on pl. 4 as the holotype; this figure number does not exist on the plate indicated. However, in the plate descriptions they identified the type specimen as pl. 4, fig. 33. That figure number has been cited here.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Potonié R, Sah SCD. 1960. Sporae dispersae of the lignites from Cannanore beach on the Malabar coast of India; The Palaeobotanist, v. 7 (1958), p. 121-135.

Jain KP, Kar RK. 1979. Palynology of Neogene sediments around Quilon and Varkala, Kerala Coast, South India 1. Fungal remains; The Palaeobotanist, v. 26 (1977), p. 105-118.
K&J REMARKS Prasad (1986, p. 38), in a paper on Holocene fungal remains, listed this species as "unidentified seed" (180 x 120 µm). Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000), also, doubt that this fossil has a fungal affinity.
TYPE
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Lirasporis intergranifer
SERIAL NUMBER 895
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.