Salix aff. caprea

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. caprea L., 1753

Text-fig. 12a, b

M a t e r i a l. Oriolo MSF 857, 860.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Leaf, simple, petiolate, petiole

4–5 mm long, stout, thickened at proximal end, lamina elliptic, 42–44 mm long, 19 mm wide, base acute, apex acute, secondary venation eucamptodromous, intersecondary veins commonly present.

R e m a r k s. Two leaves from Oriolo resemble the modern S. caprea , or a hybrid with participation of S. caprea , a widespread European riparian element.

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).