Dicyclopsodites leei gen. et sp. nov. is described from New Zealand sediments close to the Oligocene–Miocene boundary. Its botanical affinity is deemed to be within the family Apocynaceae with links to southeast Asia where taxa with pollen of similar morphology exist today.
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