Illustrations:
 Willumsen & Vajda 2010, fig. 6I (scale bar 10 um) |
IGNS taxon number: 498.
Turmal classification (after Burger 1994): Anteturma POLLENITES; Turma TRICOLPATES.
Synonymy:
1973 Tricolpites confessus Stover in Stover & Partridge pp. 254-255, pl. 17, figs 3a, 3b.
1987 Tricolpites confessus; Helby et al. p. 56, figs 35Q, 35R.
1988 Tricolpites confessus; Raine & Wilson p. 389.
1989 Tricolpites cf. confessus; Browne & MacKinnon text-figs 12, 13.
2002 Tricolpites confessus Stover in Stover & Partridge; Prasad & Pundeer p. 45, pl. 1, fig. 8.
2009 Tricolpites confessus Stover & Partridge; Truswell & Macphail p. 95, fig. 223.
2010 Tricolpites confessus; Willumsen & Vajda p. 534, fig. 6I.
Natural affinity: Dicotyledonae.
NZ age range: Paleogene to Neogene.
Brief description: Pollen. Tricolpate.
Cite this publication as: "J.I. Raine, D.C. Mildenhall, E.M. Kennedy
(2011). New Zealand fossil spores and pollen: an illustrated catalogue. 4th
edition. GNS Science miscellaneous series no. 4.
http://data.gns.cri.nz/sporepollen/index.htm".
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2011
ISBN 978-0-478-19871-3
ISSN 1177-2441
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Dallwitz (1980) and Dallwitz,
Paine and Zurcher (1993, 1999) should also be cited (see
References).