Majanthemophyllum sp.

Kvaček, Zlatko & Teodoridis, Vasilis, 2011, The Late Eocene Flora Of Kučlín Near Bílina In North Bohemia Revisited, Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 67 (3 - 4), pp. 83-144 : 106

Majanthemophyllum sp.

Pl. 14, figs 9-10

Simple leaf narrow elongate, entire-margined, ca 32 mm long and 5 mm wide, apex incomplete,? acute, base narrow cuneate, inconspicuously narrowed into a petiole, venation steeply acrodromous, consisting of 5 primaries, midrib inconspicuously thickened, higher-order venation probably reticulate, hardly visible.

D i s c u s s i o n: Similar leav es of Majanthemophyllum petiolatum are larger and much better preserved (Olgocene of Rott). Its preserved epidermal anatomy (see Kvaček and Wilde 2010) is equivocally recalling really enigmatic monocots of the Smilacaceae and some authors assigned it to Smilax (Walther in Mai and Walther 1978). The present single specimen from Kučlín is aberrant in its small size and can hardly be assigned without any doubts to M. petiolatum typically spread in the Late Oliogcene and Miocene in Europe (see Kvaček and Wilde 2010).

M a t e r i a l: KUC 191.