Rhamnus aff. cathartica

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 : 230

Rhamnus aff. cathartica L., 1753

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M a t e r i a l. Oriolo MSF 909, 3 unnumbered specimens.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Leaf, petiolate, lamina elliptic, 20– 40 mm long, 14–25 mm wide, base acute, apex bluntly acuminate, secondary veins irregular, secondary veins in middle part of lamina widely spaced, intersecondary veins present, secondary venation brochidodromous, margin appearing entire because deflexed.

R e m a r k s. The margin in this specimen is not well preserved. It seems somewhat crenulate, though, and this is also seen in R. cathartica . Rhamnus cathartica may be part of riparian vegetation, as well as forest edge communities and drier sites. It also forms part of (sub)Mediterranean scrub (Šibljak; Adamovic 1909, Horvat et al. 1974) with Berberis , Acer spp. and different deciduous oaks.

Figures

Text-fig. 6. a: cf. Rubus sp., leaflet Oriolo MSF 676. b, c: cf. Sorbus. b: Oriolo MSF 821. c: MSF 677. d: Spiraea aff. cana Oriolo MSF 944. e: Rhamnus aff. cathartica Oriolo MSF 909. f–l: Ulmus affinis. f: Oriolo MSF 717. g: Oriolo MSF 725. h: Oriolo MSF 724. i: Oriolo MSF 721. j: Oriolo MSF 723. k: Oriolo MSF 637. l: Oriolo MSF 722. m: Zelkova zelkovifolia Oriolo 28 MSF 633. Scale bars 10 mm (a–f, m), 50 mm (g–l).