Engelhardia sp.

Martinetto, Edoardo, Bertini, Adele, Mantzouka, Dimitra, Natalicchio, Marcello, Niccolini, Gabriele & Kovar-Eder, Johanna, 2022, Remains Of A Subtropical Humid Forest In A Messinian Evaporitebearing Succession At Govone, Northwestern Italy - Preliminary Results, Fossil Imprint 78 (1), pp. 157-188 : 172

Engelhardia sp.

Pl. 5, Fig. 3

M a t e r i a l. Engelhardia pollen grains were observed in all pollen samples.

R e m a r k s. These pollen grains are very abundant and well preserved.

Engelhardia orsbergensis (P.WESSEL et C.O.WEBER) JÄHNICHEN, MAI et H.WALTHER, 1977 Pl. 4, Figs 1–3

M a t e r i a l. Two almost complete leaflets (the best preserved one, MPTA 13364, already figured by Cimino et al. 2016; the other is MGPT-PU141028) and four incomplete ones from GLA20 (MGPT-PU141029, MGPT-PU141101, MGPT-PU141102, and one sample stored at MPTA; Cimino et al. 2016: pl. 1, fig. 5-top).

D e s c r i p t i o n. Leaflets, (sub)sessile, lamina oblong, l × w about 40–67 × 10–15 mm, ratio l/w about 4–4.7; base shape asymmetrical, convex, base angle acute, apex probably attenuate; margin simple serrate, only near base entire, teeth tiny, narrow, sharp, widely spaced; midvein straight; secondaries indistinct, probably semicraspedodromous, arising under wide angles; intersecondaries present; further venation not visible.

R e m a r k s. The occurrence of Engelhardia orsbergensis at Govone was already reported by Cimino et al. (2016). The characteristic fruit bracts of Engelhardia have been reported from Messinian sites located about 200 km to the East ( Teodoridis et al. 2015a, Martinetto and Macaluso 2018).