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[...] [...] influenced by the traditional maypole.

[...] complete with maypole and bonfire.

The top of the stamen metamorphoses [...] [...]

The short style hidden by the nutlets [...]

Ovary inferior (rarely secondarily superior in some non-Chinese taxa), (1 or)2-10(to many)-carpellate; carpels united, with as many locules; ovules pendulous, 2 per locule, 1 abortive; styles as many as carpels, free or partially united, erect or recurved, or fully united to form a column; stigmas terminal or decurrent on inner face of styles, or sessile on disk, circular to elliptic and radiating.

C. tylodes was first described in 1999 based on a couple of fragmentary fossils unearthed from 520-million-year-old rocks in southern China.

Female flowers: pedicels 2-15 mm; sepals 5, elliptic to ovate, 1-1.5 mm, subentire, 1-veined and carinate on back; disk patelliform, entire or subentire; ovary ovoid, (2 or)3-locular; styles 1-1.8 mm, free or connate at base, erect or recurved.

Also unlike modern-day entoprocts, C. tylodes was covered with distinctive, scalelike features called sclerites—a hint, the scientists say, that such armor may have been more common among ancestral entoprocts than has been previously recognized.

Mature fruit rarely produced, ovate, oblong, or suborbicular, 4-6 mm, few seeded; style obsolete or to 0.5 mm; stigma capitate, well developed.

Styles 3 or 4, erect or slightly spreading, 1-2 mm in fruit; stigmas usually enlarged, decurrent along both [...]

Fruit typically a 2-valved capsule, generally termed silique (siliqua) when length 3 × or more than width, or silicle (silicula) when length less than 3 × width, dehiscent or indehiscent, sometimes schizocarpic, nutletlike, lomentaceous, or samaroid, segmented or not, terete, angled, or flattened parallel to septum (latiseptate) or at a right angle to septum (angustiseptate); valves 2(or 3-6); replum (persistent placenta) rounded, rarely flattened or winged; septum complete, perforated, reduced to a rim, or lacking; style 1, distinct, obsolete, or absent; stigma capitate or conical, entire or 2-lobed, sometimes lobes decurrent and free or connate.

Allied to Clerodendrum trichotomum but differs in stamens and styles not as exserted and petioles densely yellow-brown tomentose.

Fruit lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, (3-)4.5-6.5(-8) cm × 6-11 mm; valves glabrous or pilose at least along margin, obscurely reticulate veined; septum complete; style obsolete; stigma entire or slightly lobed.

Pistillate flowers: pedicel 7-11 mm, sometimes with a bracteole; tepals 3, caducous or nearly so, outer 2 tepals bicolored as staminate flowers, suborbicular, 5-11 × 5-11 mm, inner 2 tepals oblong or narrowly obovate, 4-7 × 2.5-3.5 mm, apex obtuse; ovary ellipsoid, 5-8 × 3.7-4.1 mm, unequally or subequally 3-winged, 1-loculed with parietal placentation; abaxial wing lunate, 3-5 × 5-7 mm; styles 3, fused in proximal 1/4.

Pistillate flowers: pedicel 6-10 mm; tepals 3, outer 2 nearly oblate-orbicular, ca. 6 × 8 mm, inner narrowly obovate, ca. 5 × 2.5 mm, apex obtuse; styles 3, fused at base, ca. 1 mm; ovary glabrous, 3-loculed at middle to lower part, placentation septal (parietal toward summit of ovary).

Fruit broadly oblong, rarely oblong-linear or suborbicular, (4.5-)5-10(-14) × 3-5 mm, flat or slightly twisted, obtuse, slightly retuse, or rarely subacute at both ends, appressed to rachis; valves glabrous or pubescent; style 0.3-0.8 mm, glabrous or rarely pubescent.

Flowers usually in pairs, a staminate and a carpellate flower opposed by a solitary carpellate flower in a pair of axils; bracts lacking; styles shorter than 0.2 mm, erect or patent, persistent; filaments shorter than 0.2 mm, erect or patent; anthers ca. 1 × 1 mm, reniform; pollen ± spherical, yellow.

The oldest undisputed fossils of entoprocts are less than one-third the age of C. tylodes, so the new fossils push back the origin of the entoproct lineage all the way back to the so-called Cambrian explosion, an interval when life diversified very quickly to produce most of the groups seen today or their ancestors.

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