Smilax weberi WESSEL

Kvaček, Zlatko, Teodoridis, Vasilis & Zajícová, Jana, 2015, Revision Of The Early Oligocene Flora Of Hrazený Hill (Formerly Pirskenberg) In Knížecí Near Šluknov, North Bohemia, Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 71 (1 - 2), pp. 55-102 : 61-62

Smilax weberi WESSEL

Pl. 5, Fig. 9–10

1856 Smilax weberi WESSEL ; Wessel and Weber, p. 17, pl. 2, fig. 1.

1961 Smilax grandifolia (UNGER) HEER ; Knobloch, p. 251, pl. 13, fig. 7, pl. 15, fig. 9.

Leaves entire-margined, blade 37 to ca. 65 mm long, 29 to 34 mm wide, ovate, at base more or less cordate, towards the apex gradually narrowing. Midrib straight, with one or two arch-like basal veins on either side, the outermost interconnected by large fields. Tertiary venation consists of polygonal fields of variable size.

D i s c u s s i o n. The newly studied type material from the upper Oligocene of Rott (Winterscheid et al., personal communication) confirms the correct identification of the Knížecí material, as suggested above .

M a t e r i a l s t u d i e d: Leaf impression, NM-G8581a,

b, NM-G8608, EK 249.