Photinia sp.
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.14446/AMNP.2015.249 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/176887A2-3D19-FFC0-FECE-543CFAE9FF4B |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Photinia sp. |
status |
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cf. Photinia sp.
Pl. 8, Fig. 6–8; Pl. 12, Fig. 14
The figured elliptic to obovate finely serrulate leaves with semicraspedodromous venation differ from the above characterized fossils only by their bigger size (up to 120 mm long and 45 mm wide) and more regular camptodromous-semicraspedodromous dense secondary veins. The leaves can be more clearly compared with leaves of Photinia , a shrub native to the Himalayas, SE Asia and N America (partly separated as Heteromeles arbutifolia (LINDLEY) M. ROEMER ) rather than with Pyracantha . Reliably determined fossil records from the European Neogene have not yet been published. The morphological variability of the figured leaves is great, therefore we can not be sure that it belongs to one natural taxon.
M a t e r i a l. Leaf impressions (Monte Tondo MSF1842,
MSF1843, MSF1844, MSF1845, MSF1846).
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