Quercus aff. petraea (MATT.) LIEBL., 1784

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 : 234

Quercus aff. petraea (MATT.) LIEBL., 1784

Text-fig. 8h–j

M a t e r i a l. Oriolo MSF 639, 656, 656-1, 692, 692-1,

694, 697, 698, 702-1, 702-2.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Leaf, simple, petiolate, petiole up to 8 mm long, stout, lamina elliptic, 56–118 mm long, 30–80 mm wide, shallowly lobed, number of lobes 8–10, base obtuse-cordate to wide acute with rounded asymmetric very-base, apex acute rounded, secondary venation craspedodromous, number of secondary veins 9–11.

R e m a r k s. These leaves resemble Q. iberica M.BIEB., 1808 (syn. Quercus petraea subsp. polycarpa (SCHUR) SOÓ, 1943 ) in their regular shape, absence of intersecondary veins, and the cordate-auriculate leaf base.

Figures

Text-fig. 8. a–e: Quercus aff. cerris. a: Cup, Oriolo MSF 984. b: Cup, Oriolo MSF 982. c: Leaf, Oriolo MSF 689. d: Leaf, Oriolo MSF 659. e: Oriolo MSF 657. f: Quercus aff. pubescens Oriolo MSF 688. g: Quercus sect. Quercus acorn, Oriolo MSF 658. h–j: Quercus iberica. h: Oriolo MSF 694. i: Oriolo MSF 639. j: Oriolo MSF 698. Scale bars 10 mm (a, b, g), 50 mm (c–f, h–j).