Sorbus aff. domestica

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 : 228

Sorbus aff. domestica L., 1753

Text-fig. 5j, k

1983 Sorbus domestica L.; Roiron, p. 705, pl. 9, figs 7, 8.

2001 Sorbus domestica L.; Martinetto and Sami, p. 21, fig. 6.

M a t e r i a l. Oriolo MSF 636, 823?, 824, 825?, 826,

827, 828 F, 830?, Tebano MSF n.n.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Leaflet, sessile, lamina elliptical, lamina length 27–51 mm, lamina width 11–19 mm, ratio lamina length to width ca. 3/1, apex acute or obtuse, base slightly asymmetrical, acute to obtuse, basal part of lamina with entire margin, upper 2/3 to 1/2 with serrate margin, secondary venation craspedodromous, secondary veins departing from primary vein at acute angles, roughly uniform, teeth rosoid.

R e m a r k s. Fossil leaves of S. domestica have previously been reported from Plio-Pleistocene strata of Crespià ( Spain; Roiron 1983). Leaflets of S. aucuparia POIR., 1806 , may look very similar to S. domestica when growing on dry sites.

Figures

Text-fig. 5. a: Gleditsia aff. caspica Oriolo MSF 935. b: Gleditsia caspica modern leaflet (NMNS Cleared Leaf Database specimen T 1484). c: Crataegus aff. monogyna Oriolo MSF 836. d: Mespilus aff. germanica Oriolo MSF 785. e, g, h: Pyracantha aff. coccinea. e: Oriolo MSF 627. g: Oriolo MSF 627. h: Oriolo MSF 684. f: Pyracantha coccinea modern leaf for comparison (NMNH 03695728). i: Pyracantha coccinea modern leaf for comparison (E00408203). j, k: Sorbus aff. domestica. j: Oriolo MSF 636. k: Oriolo MSF 824. Scale bars 10 mm (a–k).