Vitis sp.

Denk, Thomas, Sami, Marco, Teodoridis, Vasilis & Martinetto, Edoardo, 2022, The Late Early Pleistocene Flora Of Oriolo, Faenza (Italy): Assembly Of The Modern Forest Biome, Fossil Imprint 78 (1), pp. 217-262 : 225

Vitis sp.

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M a t e r i a l. Oriolo MSF 838.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Leaf, simple, palmate, 3-lobed, lamina broad ovate, 63 mm long, 74 mm wide, apex acute, pointed, primary venation actinodromous, secondary venation (semi) craspedodromous, lateral lobe with prominent abmedial veins, basal-most abmedial veins with an additional set of abmedial veins, margin serrate, teeth bluntly triangular.

R e m a r k s. Sharply acute teeth are typical of Vitis (see for example Ardeghi et al. 2014), whereas other lianas in the Vitaceae such as Ampelopsis and Parthenocissus have coarser and blunter teeth usually with a small cuspidate tip. The extant woody liana Vitis vinifera subsp. sylvestris (WILLD.) HEGI, 1925 , grows in a wide range of habitats including wetlands, seasonal stream sides in closed forests, alluvial beds of large rivers, sand dune shrublands and forested wetlands (alder forests). In temperate forests of northern Iran, Parrotia persica and Carpinus betulus are the most frequent host species for Vitis ( Naqinezhad et al. 2018) .

Figures

Text-fig. 4. a–e: Parrotia aff. persica. a: Oriolo MSF 991 capsule. b: Oriolo MSF 994 endocarp. c: Oriolo MSF 654. d: Oriolo MSF 743. e: Oriolo MSF 678. f: Vitis sp. Oriolo MSF 838. g–k: Gleditsia aff. caspica. g: Oriolo MSF 920. h: Oriolo MSF 939. i: Oriolo MSF 787. j: Oriolo MSF 917. k: Oriolo MSF 925. Scale bars 10 mm (a, h–k), 5 mm (b), 50 mm (c–f).