Celastrilex 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 : 186

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.388.2.5
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13725367
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EA87B7-0959-FFE0-6BA9-644BFA8B4939
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Celastrilex Doweld
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Celastrilex Doweld , gen. nov.

Description:—Leaves petiolate, ovate-elliptical, abruptly rounded to the decurrent base and narrowed to a pointed apex; margins entire, or along the sides provided with minute, sharp, upward-pointing teeth. Midrib slender and straight, with 6–7 to 9 pairs of thin, opposite or alternate secondaries, which arise at an angle of about 40°, much curved upward and apparently arch around just inside the margin. Veinlets very fine, mainly simple, oblique to the secondaries.

Type:— Celastrilex artocarpidioides (Lesquereux) Doweld , comb. nov.

Stratigraphy:—Palaeocene.

IFPNI:— EF477B17-9DEC-B728-931E-46AB31F48C46.

Etymology:—Combination of two bases of extant generic names, Celastrus Linnaeus (1753: 196) and Ilex (1753: 125).