Fig. 3.

Raiguenrayun cura gen. and sp. nov., fossil Asteraceae from north-western Patagonia, southern South America. (A) General view of the cymose capitulescence-like fossil showing two long-pedunculate head-like inflorescences. (B) Detail of the central capitula. Arrowheads show involucral bracts. (C) Capitulescence under fluorescent light taken with a confocal microscope. Note the slender projection (bract?) in the peduncle of the lateral capitula (arrowhead). (D) Apical zone of the central capitula showing individual florets (arrowheads). (E) The same detail of D, but under fluorescent light. Note the shining slender projections (pappus) among florets. Scale bars = 1 cm.