Ocotea AUBL., 1775

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 : 169

Genus? Ocotea AUBL., 1775

cf. Ocotea heeri (C.T.GAUDIN, 1857) W.R.MÜLL., 1934 Pl. 2, Figs 11, 12

M a t e r i a l. Two almost complete leaves (MGPTPU141018, MGPT-PU141096) and a large fragment from the central part of the lamina (MGPT-PU141097), all from GLA20.

D e s c r i p t i o n. MGPT-PU141018 represents the lamina of an almost complete simple leaf, shape elliptic; base shape convex, base angle obtuse, apex not preserved, l × w about 56 × 28 mm, ratio l/w about 2; margin entire; midvein slender, rather straight, secondaries brochidodromous, widely spaced, arising at moderately steep angles, intersecondaries present, tertiaries partly percurrent, partly reticulate, widely spaced, higher order veins reticulate.

R e m a r k s. The coarse secondary and tertiary veins distinguish these leaves among others reported from the Neogene of Italy. The preservation of the two almost entire specimens does not allow discernment of the diagnostically relevant domatia at the base of the basal secondaries ( Martinetto 2003: pl. 5, figs 8–10). However, the original presence of a domatium is suggested by a thickened globular structure of organic material at the base of a secondary vein of the large leaf fragment (Pl. 2, Fig. 12b).