Frangulops Doweld, 2019

Doweld, Alexander B., 2019, New names for Ilex and Ilexpollenites (Aquifoliaceae), extant and fossil. Notulae Systematicae ad Palaeofloram Europaeam spectantes II. Aquifoliaceae, Phytotaxa 388 (2), pp. 179-191 : 187

Frangulops Doweld , gen. nov.

Description:—Leaves variable in shape, petiolate, long-elliptic, obovate, or oblanceolate; apex obtuse or acute, often mucronate; base cuneate to decurrent; margin entire (or crenulate?); midrib strong; 5 to 8 pairs of subopposite secondaries, those near base arising at 30°, angle increasing to 45° or 50° near apex, smoothly curved upward, approaching near margin and finally anastomosing in a series of small loops with succeeding secondary; secondaries strongly bowed near apex; tertiary venation semipercurrent, the numerous tertiary veins aligned nearly perpendicularly to midrib and bowed upward at outer junctions; areolation reticulate.

Type: — Frangulops pseudostenophylla (Lesquereux) Doweld , comb. nov.

Stratigraphy:—Upper Eocene (Priabonian).

IFPNI:— 0E14EB8E-0698-8AF8-C0AD-89FAED8289D0.

Etymology:—Similar to extant genus Frangula Miller (1754 : [517]).