Salix aff. alba

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 : 237

Salix aff. alba L., 1753

Text-fig. 12c–d

M a t e r i a l. Oriolo MSF 851, 851-1.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Leaf, simple, lamina oblanceolate,> 40 mm long, 14 mm wide, base acute, secondary venation eucamptodromous, small veins departing from secondary veins enter small, glandular teeth.

R e m a r k s. Based on the course of the secondary veins, the lamina shape and the rare presence of intersecondary veins, the two leaf fragments from Oriolo match the modern species S. alba , or a hybrid with participation of this species.

Figures

Text-fig. 12. a, b: Salix aff. caprea. a: Oriolo MSF 857. b: Oriolo MSF 860. c, d: Salix aff. alba. c: Oriolo MSF 854. d: Oriolo MSF 854. e, f: Salix aff. viminalis vel eleagnos. e: Oriolo MSF 803. f: Oriolo MSF 801. g: Salix aff. triandra Oriolo MSF 626. h–k: Salix spp. div. indet. h: Oriolo MSF 865. i: Oriolo MSF 807. j: Oriolo MSF 804. k: Oriolo MSF 802. Scale bars 10 mm (a–e, h, i–k), 50 mm (f, g).